Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software after its code was found tied to US surveillance efforts
2026-02-24 18:01 UTC
Discord cut ties with its age-verification partner after exposed code fueled federal-reporting concerns, months after a breach hit 70,000 users.
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@jaykrown@lemmy.world 2026-02-24 23:05
I’m absolutely deleting my discord account once they update it with the age verification. The matrix protocol is a reasonable alternative joinmatrix.org
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@Thetechloop@programming.dev 2026-04-17 05:55
Sure they did wink
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@popcar2@piefed.ca 2026-02-24 19:38
A nothingburger apology that follows the same patterns every company does Introduce outrageous thing Apologize delay outrageous thing by a few months and hope people forgot about it, then do it again
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@masterofn001@lemmy.ca 2026-02-24 21:23
Peter thiel is everything wrong with the world. He is a plague, a cancer, a curse. He is in the Epstein files. He likely had his gay lover killed for revealing he was gay. Peter thiel is the enemy of humanity. Peter thiel is an antichrist