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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-...)

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.'

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Discord 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.

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