sex worker rights are human rights are privacy rights are disability rights are BIPOC rights are trans/queer rights are *human rights*. supporting sex workers is critical always, but esp now, as many of them are ending up canaries in the fascism mine we're all we've got, but we're also all we need

a nice thing about when the internet was a bunch of little sites and servers was that it was a lot harder for governments to pressure "the chat provider everyone uses" to implement age verification. you wanna pressure 300 separate IRC servers? good luck with that. but one company? easy

This. This is why you should never EVER trust a website or service with your government ID, whether your from the UK or elsewhere. It's an invasion of citizen privary and can easily be nabbed by those who know what they're doing.

hey @discord.com, ive been here since 2015, and live in a country that has not passed any ID verification laws. the day discord kicks off forced-ID, im done. frankly, i may be done even without on how bad this breach of trust is. fix your approach or go under. your call.

fuck forced verification, fuck infantilization of the internet, neither discord nor any other for-profit company will ever be interested in keeping your data safe. after all, why bother if it's gonna cost ThE sTaKeHoLdErS money, and that simply will not do.

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