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fossilesque@mander.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel

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Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel

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Discord is "experimenting" with an age authentication vendor whose major investors include Thiel's Founders Fund.
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    I love how mask off they were in choosing Palantir as their dipshit company name. Like, “Yes, hello, you are now calling Anakin Skywalker’s Daycare Service. Are you looking to enroll your child.” Bet our political elite would love that one.

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    American tech giants are just one fascist cult.

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    [The world is run by Satanic Pedophiles]

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    14 hours ago

    try movim.eu if you are looking for alternatives

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    Oh, good. Discord’s age verification rollout has ties to Palantir’s co-founder Peter Thiel. That’s the nail in the coffin for me. It’ll be Matrix only from me from now on!

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      Or XMPP or Stoat.

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        I prefer not to use centralized services.

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    I uninstalled Discord yesterday.

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      Delete your account too

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        There’s not really anything on that account, tbh. I only ever used it a few times to talk to friends when playing minecraft.

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    Nice! Very cool.

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    Welp they’re done for real 😧

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    And the new Discord CEO is Israeli

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    Wooooowwwww. It’s being used for exactly what I said it would be~

    I know a lot if us are not even surprised in the least, but i hope some of the head-in-the-sand naysayer motherfuckers wake up and learn something.

    When they say the images wont leave your computer. Its because they converted it to facial geometry. They dont want the images because they take too much storage.

    When they say they will delete it after processing, processing includes sending a copy to whoever else theyve agreed to share it with. Palantir, im sure here, maybe through an intermediary data broker.

    I deleted my discord account immediately when the news of this face-check-age-check broke

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    I’ll leave this here.

    https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/212500837-How-to-Delete-your-Discord-Account

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      Read through the whole thing, you “lose access” to your stuff but it never mentions them deleting the content. Seems like the same shitty move Reddit did a while ago, “your” content in there is now theirs. Deleting your account just makes u unable to use/modify it.

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        @Willdrick @BrianTheeBiscuiteer there’s a cool video on the subject at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5FbRfwMEuo

        Basically you have to use a tool to delete your messages and then send a GDPR request to discord before deleting your account, otherwise your messages will stay and will appear as sent from “Deleted user” with no way to delete them.

        #discord #privacy

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      Thank you, that was just very useful. Deleted. One more gone.

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    So age verfication to protect the children or to create a menu?

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      To scramble and divide any organized communication just like they did Twitter and other social media.

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        deleted by creator

    • DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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      It’s to “Protect the children™”

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      They’ve been telling us “It’s for the kids” but it all makes sense now

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    More and more things we give away because parents can’t be bothered to parent their kids. This is exactly how they win by slowly chiseling away our perceived rights until there is nothing left. I’ll certainly not participate in any Internet that requires me to shed my anonymity.

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      Okay, this has nothing to do with parents parenting their kids. It has 100% to do with the perception that the internet is dangerous and using that perception to collect information about people. That’s what they want, to put a name and face to all interpersonal interactions so they can use them for marketing and law enforcement.

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        Social media converted half of Americans into nazis in about a decade and elected Trump twice. If you don’t think the internet is dangerous, you’re not paying attention.

        That said, it’s easy to keep kids off instagram and TikTok without spying. Simply require devices to which children have access to be sold without access to half the internet. Problem solved.

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          Some folks would say half of America had always been either Nazis or Nazi sympathizers. But we just call those later groups, Nazis.

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            30% of humans were always evil. But we didn’t have criminal pedophile cabals openly running the country. Something changed with the rise of social media. You know what that is.

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              Just because you weren’t aware of them doesn’t mean they weren’t there.

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                You’re right. Politics now and politics 15 years ago are identical. Nothing to see here folks. No need to worry!

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          That said, it’s easy to keep kids off instagram and TikTok without spying. Simply require devices to which children have access to be sold without access to half the internet. Problem solved.

          how would you that? most children aren’t buying their phones by themselves

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            Pass the law. Word it properly. Let the market do something useful for once and accommodate the new rules.

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    I’ll bookmark this

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    Never forget that Peter Thiel knows about the antichrist

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      It also seems he can’t shut up about the Antichrist, too.

      Spoilers: Its always whoever he doesn’t like that’s been in the news the most this week.

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        A note to that, Thiel always says it’s someone who expresses empathy, compassion, or other similar sentiment.

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          A note to that, Thiel always says it’s someone who expresses empathy, compassion, or other similar sentiment.

          Yes, the ““Sin”” of empathy.

          There are people who’ve wrapped ‘anti-woke’ in bible verses and claim that empathy can be a sin.

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      Because it’s him? That would explain all the kids he raped with Epstein and Maxwell. And being friends with Elon Musk.

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        https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

        More like he’s good friends with him.

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          They literally wear his symbol on their forehead with the maga hats.

          So no, not only can they not spot the antichrist, they actively embrace him.

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          I’m not really religious but that piece of reading has bothered me for years. I’ve yet to spot watchers in sack cloth though

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