Update:
They’re not just hunting the leaker.
Take-Two got court approval to pull personal info (emails, phone numbers, IPs, device IDs) from ~100k Discord users across multiple servers... including DarkViperAU’s 90k-member server.
Most of those people are complete bystanders who had nothing to do with the leaks.
A multi-billion dollar company turning Discord into a mass surveillance tool the second their IP gets threatened.
And remember… once they have that personal data, there’s no real guarantee they can even protect it.
These big companies get breached regularly. When (not if) it happens again, your info is just sitting there waiting to be leaked.
Greed + power = this exact playbook.
Ban kids from the mall and they'll hang out in the ally behind the mall.
Ban kids from the big social media platforms, the ones that invest the most in safety and moderation, and kids will just go to sketchier platforms.
Governments know this. They only do it to force online IDs.
THE UK JUST MADE PRIVACY A CRIME.
The government wants a scanner built inside every phone in the country.
Scanning every citizen becomes the law. Refusing becomes 5 years in prison.
- The scanners would inspect every photo, message and video on your device before encryption
- Signal threatened to leave the UK entirely rather than build the backdoor
- Europe's age verification app built to "keep children safe" was hacked in under 2 minutes
- Another verification system leaked 70,000 IDs and selfies in a single breach
Orwell wrote 1984 as a warning. His own country turned it into law