[1] My DW cofounder does work for Discord, but he (rightfully) does not share Discord's discussions with me. But they've put a BUNCH of effort into opposing these laws.

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Discord is a member of Netchoice, the trade organization that's fighting these laws in the US, and they've shown up for pretty much every lawsuit since they joined. I can't say for certain[1] but I HIGHLY doubt they are doing this because they want to.

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IE: the UK has mandatory age verification, the EU as a whole is in the process of implementing it, Australia has banned essentially all online interaction for under-16s, NZ is either trying to or has passed it, etc etc etc.

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I'm personally involved with 95% of the lawsuits in the US over these laws and I have lost track of which states have age verification laws in effect and which are and aren't under injunction! And that's not even counting the countries that are doing the same.

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While this absolutely sucks, we are going to see a lot more places implementing universal global age verification over this next year, because the number of states and countries legally requiring it has gotten to the point no one can keep up anymore.

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