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Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel
(www.openrightsgroup.org)
That is so strange.
this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2026
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I have not experienced such on Reddit myself, but I am diversifying my use, just in case.
This place looks nice so I've created an account and set up a new bookmark.
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does using Death Stranding still work because i'm not giving them my face
I used a jpeg of Seether's drummer for my Google account and that worked.
Those are weird places to mine data... are they specifically targeting young people?
Well they have been for years with their late pal Jeff, so...
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Theil should be removed from any authoritative seats he may hold, and then be stripped of his wealth to stop him buying our elected officials
Also buried up to his neck in the desert.
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"Compelled"
Well anyways, lemmy seems fine
Once governments realise it exists, they will look to start blocking it.
compelled to use
I gotta say, a lot of the compulsion seems to be around "adult content" which is fairly easy to avoid in most cases.
I would be more interested in how these rules tend to target LGBTQ+ groups for censorship than how they slap a "teenagers" tag on anyone who isn't feeding them biometric data. This feels like another edition of "straight is normal, gay is sex" Christian orthodoxy being codified into the digital landscape.
This compels me to learn deepfakes, which seems not too hard as long as you have sufficient hardware... Or if not then those Death Stranding like methods might still work :AyameHmm:
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Like hell me, my 1 friend and my half working Matrix server are.
They are trying to make it seem like they care about kids at the same time they released the Epstein files... While Trump is lying saying he is not guilty / not in them. They are trying to rile up their base even more and encite violence towards their political enemies. People have been calling for violence on Twitter and ramping it up. I am sick of leftist platforms censoring so much because its very scary.
Is anyone suprised?
I tried convincing my friends to leave discord, and only 2 people attempted, but I kind of fucked up by enabling message encryption.
But now that this bullshit is here, I wonder if I should try again? I might go the VPS route and call it a day, but I really want to have it locally hosted so I don't have yet another thing to pay monthly.