See I'm conflicted for one reason: Discord has a BAD track record in dealing with grooming of ALL kinds.
This is like if Roblox or Bluesky was forced to age verify because they allowed the problem to get so bad yet 4chan and YouTube didn't because even at their worst they weren't this bad.
Though I'd rather they just did discovery and started arresting staff as I can bet many ALLOWED it to get this bad and even participated.
I mean id love that too, only reason I'm hesitant the left and establishment have diluted the term by using it against cartoon drawings and wives using it as a way to attack innocent father's custody rights.
But if the evidence is against them, 100%, woodchipper feet first.
Pretty much, it's why I'd prefer to ruin and destroy these companies through discovery and criminal procedures they no doubt can easily be brought against them than introduce less anonymity.
As sometimes I feel sites like Discord and Bluesky exist to justify age verification, like when was the last time anyone not a Rothchild complained about Steam?
Good point. User: "A Nazi in my channel used the N-word!" Admin: "Horrible! We need ID verification to associate real people with what users write so we can permaban them and shame them!" Predator: "Wait uh....let's not...let's not do anything implusive here....let's uh...think this through..."
Age verification won't help much at these companies that encourage grooming.
You can't make a horse drink water. They'll just do it by forum and let groomers open new forums when one gets put into adult-only mode.
Section 230 is the problem. It should at least be like the DMCA where if they receive a report of content that violates their own content policy they have to take it down immediately for review and if they put it back they're legally liable for it.
They should also be responsible for patterns of behavior. LBRY for instance if you get an adult content strike they put all your content as adult-only. If Discord doesn't do something similar they should be legally liable; if somebody was grooming and they let them open a new public forum or post in a non-adult one then Discord should be held at least contributorily responsible.
That sounds a lot better, we really just need to be able to go 'you allowed this to happen, now you get less privileges'
If a company can just govern itself effectively, they should be left alone only having to pay the required taxes (we're not getting rid of them anytime soon), as I said before, no one is complaining about Steam.
See I'm conflicted for one reason: Discord has a BAD track record in dealing with grooming of ALL kinds.
This is like if Roblox or Bluesky was forced to age verify because they allowed the problem to get so bad yet 4chan and YouTube didn't because even at their worst they weren't this bad.
Though I'd rather they just did discovery and started arresting staff as I can bet many ALLOWED it to get this bad and even participated.
*Executing staff (I understand this is the real world but we need to start executing these pedos in mass)
I mean id love that too, only reason I'm hesitant the left and establishment have diluted the term by using it against cartoon drawings and wives using it as a way to attack innocent father's custody rights.
But if the evidence is against them, 100%, woodchipper feet first.
Yeah, that's a fair response, I'm sure I'm too hard-line and unshakeable about that. Can't really argue.
It's simple:
If you'd end up on Alex Rosen or Chris Hansen's show?
In the ocean you go.
Losing anonymity is never the right solution. Shit like this always backfires
Pretty much, it's why I'd prefer to ruin and destroy these companies through discovery and criminal procedures they no doubt can easily be brought against them than introduce less anonymity.
As sometimes I feel sites like Discord and Bluesky exist to justify age verification, like when was the last time anyone not a Rothchild complained about Steam?
Discord openly permits the Trevor Project kidnappers to operate, organize and pool funding and resources on their platform.
Good point. User: "A Nazi in my channel used the N-word!" Admin: "Horrible! We need ID verification to associate real people with what users write so we can permaban them and shame them!" Predator: "Wait uh....let's not...let's not do anything implusive here....let's uh...think this through..."
Age verification won't help much at these companies that encourage grooming.
You can't make a horse drink water. They'll just do it by forum and let groomers open new forums when one gets put into adult-only mode.
Section 230 is the problem. It should at least be like the DMCA where if they receive a report of content that violates their own content policy they have to take it down immediately for review and if they put it back they're legally liable for it.
They should also be responsible for patterns of behavior. LBRY for instance if you get an adult content strike they put all your content as adult-only. If Discord doesn't do something similar they should be legally liable; if somebody was grooming and they let them open a new public forum or post in a non-adult one then Discord should be held at least contributorily responsible.
That sounds a lot better, we really just need to be able to go 'you allowed this to happen, now you get less privileges'
If a company can just govern itself effectively, they should be left alone only having to pay the required taxes (we're not getting rid of them anytime soon), as I said before, no one is complaining about Steam.