Uk, Effective from July 25, 2025, regulated platforms must use "highly effective" methods, such as facial age estimation, credit card checks, or ID verification to prevent children from accessing harmful material, with potential fines or bans for non-compliance. (extents to any platform with user uploaded content)
Australia, as of 10 December 2025 Australia requires social media platforms to take reasonable steps to prevent users under 16 from accessing accounts.
No wonder there where "no real complaints" those countries are already under heavy age verification law.
> Also teen mode doesn't actually seem that restrictive.
Doesn't mean it can't get more restrictive in a few months. Ease people into it would actually be the smart move since there will be less complaints.
> But for whatever reason people seem to froth at the mouth when it comes to discord on here.
Because Discord has not handled their data well in recent memory (actually ever).
Also it is a global rollout not mandated by the countries law. This indicates that it is a business decisions and therefore probably they stand to gain from it financially.
or.... for simplicities sake, everywhere operates the same way. More countries are going to require this, this makes it pretty simple for them I'm guessing, just roll it out everywhere.
they had a breach last year...they didn't leak their core data, the 3rd party they used leaked data to do with age verification. Which was bad. What other data problems you see? Nearly everything else is unconfirmed/scraping public data.
They could make it more restrictive? sure.... but why? a core demographic for them is teens playing games and joining servers related to their games, why would they make it worse for one of their biggest target audiences? Any company who are targeting kids (Roblox did something similar) really do have to show they are doing at least something to protect that demographic. The consequence of not doing that is governments coming after you. That's their financial incentive, not to be shutdown, fined, sued etc.
Australia, as of 10 December 2025 Australia requires social media platforms to take reasonable steps to prevent users under 16 from accessing accounts.
No wonder there where "no real complaints" those countries are already under heavy age verification law.
> Also teen mode doesn't actually seem that restrictive.
Doesn't mean it can't get more restrictive in a few months. Ease people into it would actually be the smart move since there will be less complaints.
> But for whatever reason people seem to froth at the mouth when it comes to discord on here.
Because Discord has not handled their data well in recent memory (actually ever).
Also it is a global rollout not mandated by the countries law. This indicates that it is a business decisions and therefore probably they stand to gain from it financially.