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French lawmakers vote to ban social media use by under-15s ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/27/france-social-media-ban-under-15s https://www.theguar
by raincole 9mo ago
French lawmakers vote to ban social media use by under-15s (
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/27/france-social-media-ban-under-15s https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/27/france-social-...)
Online age verification in the United Kingdom (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_age_verification_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_age_verification_in_the...)
Blaming Discord and switching to another centralized service won't do shit as long as voters keep falling for 'protect the kids.'
- StrLght 9mo agoDiscord isn't under pressure to implement these measures globally. I fully agree that they shouldn't be blamed for kick-starting age verification, because governments are pushing for this all around the world. But it's simply ignorant to pretend that Discord isn't helping these governments to normalise this process with their actions. They're also signalling that businesses are willing to comply and that they have all means necessary to do this.