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Post #588995

2026-03-07 07:58 UTC

"Age verification" laws are "we want to have all adults and their complete online profile in a database" laws, and that Persona, the company behind LinkedIn, Roblox, Discord ID and age verification is owned by Peter Thiel should be all you need to know.

Replies (4)

  • @skyr@chaos.social 2026-03-07 08:19

    @ela "behind" meaning "are using", not "being owned by", if my Google-Fu is correct. And being the company "leaking to the US government" https://cybernews.com/privacy/persona-leak-exposes-global-surveillance-capabilities/

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  • @Emmeline@hoosier.social 2026-03-07 17:49

    @ela Don’t forget Mississippi banning any social media that is against the gop because they made up porn laws.

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  • @Lstn2urmama@mstdn.ca 2026-03-08 09:00

    @ela more like privacy interference !

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  • @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz 2026-03-18 02:55

    @ela > Persona, the company behind LinkedIn, Roblox, Discord ID and age verification is owned by Peter Thiel Willingness to deal with that proudly technofascist sociopath at all; https://www.lemonde.fr/en/summer-reads/article/2025/07/22/peter-thiel-the-libertarian-billionaire-waging-war-on-government_6743617_183.html ... let alone on anything to do with identification of people using a platform, ought to be sufficient reason to tombstone accounts on all 3 of those. Leaving only breadcrumbs pointing to the ethical services they've been replaced with. Time to head for the #FyreExyt folks ...

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