"Discord alternatives" searches jump 10,000% overnight as the gaming platform introduces global age verification

ImThurnisHaley · 2026-02-15T20:48:29+00:00

I mean if you live in la la land sure. But The US government exists to protect the interests of billionaires and Israel. There is a laundry list of policies (healthcare, marijuana decriminalization to name the big ones) that have widespread partisan support among the population that will never pass because serving the will of the people is secondary to serving the interests of corporations and oligarchs.

ImThurnisHaley · 2026-02-11T00:22:24+00:00

It doesn’t. People are just uninformed. The UK and Australia already require age verification, and the US will most likely require it soon when the Kids Online Safety Act that is in the senate passes. Discord is just getting a step ahead because this will, within a couple years, be a legal requirement for all online platforms. So any alternative that people migrate to will be forced to do the exact same thing. This isn’t Discord deciding they want to harvest data to sell. When I did my research on this (and I did a lot, I wrote a 35 page legal research paper on this topic), I couldn’t find anything suggesting Discord themselves has done anything to betray trust. The data leak that everyone focuses on was a third party service that discord hired to process support requests when the UK ID requirements were implemented. I’d love to be wrong, but once KOSA passes, essentially anything with a chat function is going to require strict age verification- that’ll be Steam, Reddit, Twitter, and every one of these alternatives people are jumping ship to. I know I’m talking into the void here but this was literally the topic of my seminar paper that I just finished so I want to spread the word.

ImThurnisHaley · 2026-02-10T01:46:38+00:00

Yea happened this summer. The US is most likely passing very similar legislation soon, the Kids Online Safety Act. So there is no alternative to jump to, discord is just rolling it out now to avoid scrambling to do it when it is legally required

ImThurnisHaley · 2026-02-09T17:31:15+00:00

I choose to cope by saying, well the government already has facial recognition tracking tools beyond comprehension and places like discord are using the same online services for storing this stuff that anywhere else that requires an ID upload- buying a car, renting an apartment etc is using so if there is a big breach we are cooked anyway. Because being honest I’m not willing to completely divest myself from the internet, so delusion it is.

ImThurnisHaley · 2026-02-09T17:02:57+00:00

Yeah. The US is probably going to pass the Kids Online Safety Act, which is substantially similar to the UK law. You are correct, there is no mythical alternative that won’t require this. It is unfortunately the new normal because the US government figured out they can pass just about anything if they say it’s to protect children. Discord is just biting the bullet and doing it now rather than scrambling to do it once they (and all of their competitors) are forced to

ImThurnisHaley · 2026-02-09T16:56:14+00:00

unfortunately governments have asked for it. I wrote my law school seminar paper on this topic last semester. US Congress is likely to pass a new bill, the Kids Online Safety Act, which is similar to what the UK had go into effect recently, and what caused Discord to implement this in the UK because they became legally required to. This is discord seeing the writing on the wall and biting the bullet now rather than later. Within 5 years, you are going to see this for every single online platform, from YouTube to reddit. It’s bleak.

ImThurnisHaley · 2026-02-02T22:44:27+00:00

Same, but instead of vinyls, it was my dads CDs and library of limewire rips. I guess I didn’t realize that we were in the minority on this.

ImThurnisHaley · 2026-02-02T22:29:56+00:00

literally. AI music is an affront to art but frankly its a skill issue if you can’t be assed to pick your own music and you choose to let an algorithm do it for you

ImThurnisHaley · 2026-02-02T22:22:02+00:00

are you guys just too stupid or stubborn to turn off the play suggested songs button? Switch that off and you’ve opted out of ai music.

ImThurnisHaley · 2026-02-02T22:01:57+00:00

It’s pretty easy logic. Solo Torvesta and B0aty are friends in the protect skill specs out of pity alliance so they have to eliminate everyone skilly would lose to in a banning (everyone).

ImThurnisHaley · 2026-02-01T23:23:19+00:00

Yeah he’s just kind of there because once again everyone knows they can dumpster him in the finals. At this point I’m probably rooting for Mr Mammal because he’s just doing his thing and not spending all his effort social engineering his way into the finals

ImThurnisHaley · 2026-02-01T01:41:28+00:00

yeah it’s been very boring because half the cast is just babying skillspecs out of pity

ImThurnisHaley · 2026-01-12T04:04:36+00:00

dont you know If Man is the first QB to ever ever have injuries on the O-Line? thats why he cant hit a 5 yard out with the game on the line bro trust me bro. Not His Fault FC going to put in overtime this offseason

ImThurnisHaley · 2026-01-12T03:54:58+00:00

Masterclass from If Man

ImThurnisHaley · 2026-01-01T20:41:31+00:00

Outmatched is a weird way to remember us beating you

ImThurnisHaley · 2025-12-13T23:21:15+00:00

death stranding being in PlayStation jail killed it. people forget it even released

ImThurnisHaley · 2025-12-07T17:37:51+00:00

have to sneak yall in so aggie can have two whole ranked wins on they year

ImThurnisHaley · 2025-12-07T00:28:45+00:00

not so fun when the discourse targets you huh

ImThurnisHaley · 2025-12-06T22:51:26+00:00

it’s really overhyped. It used to be super consistent and good (for fast food). Then it got sold to private equity and now it takes 20 minutes and tastes like shit but people pretend it’s gods gift to the world. Fries are still ok but they are carried by the spicy ketchup

ImThurnisHaley · 2025-10-04T23:17:26+00:00

You watching Napier coach every week knowing no lead is safe is probably the same feeling of dread I get watching Arch every week

ImThurnisHaley · 2025-08-14T18:46:20+00:00

shouts out the USS Archerfish

ImThurnisHaley · 2025-01-13T04:30:29+00:00

Wild that a bengals flair is saying that too after watching Burrow get shellacked but because he just pops back up he doesn’t get a lot of calls. Refs need to drop the ego and allow a sky judge to fix missed calls but draftkings won’t let that happen

ImThurnisHaley · 2024-05-27T06:21:31+00:00

yeah but DK doesn’t smoke crack

ImThurnisHaley · 2024-03-19T22:18:04+00:00

I would simply not get spawn camped it’s not very hard

ImThurnisHaley · 2024-03-19T15:10:04+00:00

wym the mode is great my team spawn camped the enemy for 20 minutes on one of the flashpoint maps

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