"Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month.""Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month."

Beginning in March, all accounts will have a ‘teen-appropriate experience by default.’

This will be the case for every major website that allows user uploaded content. Question is how long? Definitely within ten years. Five? I'm leaning towards three.

Users who aren’t verified as adults will not be able to access age-restricted servers and channels, won’t be able to speak in Discord’s livestream-like “stage” channels, and will see content filters for any content Discord detects as graphic or sensitive. They will also get warning prompts for friend requests from potentially unfamiliar users, and DMs from unfamiliar users will be automatically filtered into a separate inbox.

Well that doesn't sound too bad. Just a little broken if you don't want to give them your ID or a face scan.

but users won’t be able to send messages or view content in an age-restricted server until they complete the age check process, even if it’s a server they were part of before age verification rolled out.

Even if I didn't think this was a major move toward controlling access to information and what people say online, there's still the fact that they will inevitably leak your kyc data:

In October, one of Discord’s former third-party vendors suffered a data breach that exposed users’ age verification data, including images of government IDs.

But they say don't worry:

Badalich also says after the October data breach, Discord “immediately stopped doing any sort of age verification flows with that vendor” and is now using a different third-party vendor. She adds that, “We’re not doing biometric scanning [or] facial recognition. We’re doing facial estimation. The ID is immediately deleted. We do not keep any information around like your name, the city that you live in, if you used a birth certificate or something else, any of that information.”

I don't see how we avoid this. The natural next step is to "age-verify" at the internet access level.

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