Too little, too late.
this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2026
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Who else is using Peter Thiels crap?
Robinhood uses Persona.
Well, I don't believe you.
Also, you should learn what trust is and how that works.
Why create ties in the first place?
Not sure if I should upvote people fixing a obvious, terrible problem that they created themselves.
It's all about testing the waters and seeing what they can get away with.
It's how abusive relationships work.
Suuuurrrrrreeeee. They will probably just setup a shell company or whatever they do. These rats don't just give up and go home.
Damage is already done. Greetings from [matrix].
With guys like this you don't need to find secret surveillance shit, you just need to assume it.
It's fucking Peter Thiel. They should know he is radioactive.
They probably did, but didn't care. They only started "caring" because it made the news
Yup, but some companies gotta learn the hard way that you can't snake people like that and expect them to come back.
Why isn’t this disgusting criminal in prison?
Doubt.
Anything Thiel touches is compromised. All he does is steal your data so he can use it too brainwash you..
Is it just me or does this (the push for removing online anonymity) feel like part of a bigger move to push people into further insulated groups and prevent social cohesion?
People like Elon Musk and Donald Trump would love the power that China has over its citizens in online affairs.
They want to make it as normal as possible for people to identify themselves online so anyone who doesn't stands out and it's easier to pass laws to make privacy illegal.
Corporations like Discord are how oligarchs exert their will over the population, since they can't always use the government directly (yet.)
I noticed articles and social media topics are going really aggressive with we need to ban social media because it's bad for kids, and bunch of comments advocating for verification. Which of course would mean what discord is attempting to do with IDs and face scans.
Which is so bizzare seeing the backlash to discord by real people, but then non discord related topics all pro about verification.
Almost like there's a push from powerful people to get this passed as soon as possible
I'm with you. Made a comment recently, here or elsewhere, that a huge thing to happen with social spaces over time is that trustworthy sources of information have a chance to really prove themselves as such. So when you rip apart one platform and scatter its users, you destroy that earned credibility and leave a lot of people without at least some of their reliable news sources. That's most harmful to people looking for actual truth, since people willing to swallow comfortable lies don't really need the providers of information to be vetted.
The conclusion to all this is that keeping social platforms from building large, long-term communities is a very effective way to keep people who seek truth from finding it.
Nah, don't believe it. Reason: money
did it really though?
did it really?
for some reason I've got the "oh you aren't???" mashed up with that anakin with the ridiculous breasts meme
That's cool, still leaving though.
I ain't submitting my ID to anyone over the internet.
This is a place of anonymity, not for proclaiming from the rooftops who I am on here.
Already deleted my account. Not going back.
Too late.
Yeah I'm sure they had absolutely no idea before. Because Peter Thiel such a trusted and reputable name, how could they possibly known that doing business with him would be negatively construed?
nice try, but you will try to reintroduce it under another name. ALso the anti-christ thiel wont be happy.
Smoke in mirrors. I'm calling bullshit. Thiel will probably get all the info and blackmail everyone later.
Smoke and mirrors mate. Hard agree though, it all goes into storage to weaponise later.
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He already got it. That's the only reason a company "backpedals". Saying this shit is only to save face so no one leaves. You know, because we're all stupid and believe everything rich people teal us.
A nothingburger apology that follows the same patterns every company does
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Introduce outrageous thing
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Apologize
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delay outrageous thing by a few months and hope people forgot about it, then do it again
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Peter thiel is everything wrong with the world.
He is a plague, a cancer, a curse.
He is in the Epstein files.
He likely had his gay lover killed for revealing he was gay.
Peter thiel is the enemy of humanity.
Peter thiel is an antichrist
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Discord: Sorry, we spied and report on you through software from a bad company. Be assured, we will spy and report on you through good company software from now on!
I'm absolutely deleting my discord account once they update it with the age verification. The matrix protocol is a reasonable alternative https://joinmatrix.org/
Why not today? They’ve already shown their true colours. That’s the bar they set=> EXPECT them to keep that bar there and lower it eventually.
Show me an example of a big corporation that has backpedaled and then started acting wholesome from then on. You might find, maybe one or two for the time being.
They are not your friends.
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... cuts ties for the time being
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