IRC plus GNU Jami are still freedom respecting zones! I sincerely hope all this age verification crap causes cypherpunk FOSS solutions to grow in popularity.

Still required to use a video or ID card in the UK.

There was a brief window where you could submit fake biometrics through a third-party site to verify age on Discord, pretty sure I got the link from hackernews.

That made me feel better that Discord didn't need to store my ID or video of my face, and was only storing the results of some analysis and not the inputs.

> "Rather than waiting to be told how to do it, we’re launching our own..."

Translation: we've found an excuse to hold our captive users hostage for their monetizable personal information, and we're leaping at the opportunity. Nothing obligates us to demand this data, but we deeply covet it.

> "We're launching this over the course of this week, so it may take a few days to..."

Translation: we'd like to limit the PR impact of our hostile acts by staggering them temporally, so that our users can't effectively coordinate social media protests.

I actually like their implementation. I'm curious if it will be enough for governments, but it is nice that they are trying to persue a path without id checks

I like that the dialog indicates the service provider. Thumbs up for transparency.