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[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

By your logic, we might also remove "Are you 18+?" questions from mainstream porn sites, cause children might not lie and go to a shadier site where it will not ask for their age.

Man. I am not even sure if Discord is better than some shady porn sites. Cause unless you are from another galaxy, you probably heard not so "child friendly" stories about what children been exposed on some lesser known discord channels. Some of the times the content is something you'd struggle to find in open web.

In any case, children would find explicit content anywhere else if they want to. So there is no particular reason to be afraid of ID verification since it doesn't necessary change that fact.

[–] Airowird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'm fine with the 18+ question because it atleast explicitly requires people to know they're entering that site. You can't argue kids are exposed by accident if they click "Enter".

As for ID verification, I'm against it for my own privacy, if nothing else changes for kids, then what is the argument to have it for adults? (Besides authoritarian control)

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Age verification is not mandatory. Unless you want to browse NSFW content. You can ignore age verification and keep browsing adult content somewhere else.

I believe many would not verify themselves, groups that do adult content would lose majority of user base. So they would move somewhere else where I assume their user base would follow.

[–] sakuraba@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

you are really naive if you think nsfw/adult content is just porn