Discord Will Require Face Scan Or ID Scan For Full Access Starting March 2026

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Discord announced on Monday that it’s rolling out age verification on its platform globally starting next month, when it will automatically set all users’ accounts to a “teen-appropriate” experience unless they demonstrate that they’re adults.

Users who aren’t verified as adults will not be able to access age-restricted servers and channels, won’t be able to speak in Discord’s livestream-like “stage” channels, and will see content filters for any content Discord detects as graphic or sensitive. They will also get warning prompts for friend requests from potentially unfamiliar users, and DMs from unfamiliar users will be automatically filtered into a separate inbox.

Direct messages and servers that are not age-restricted will continue to function normally, but users won’t be able to send messages or view content in an age-restricted server until they complete the age check process, even if it’s a server they were part of before age verification rolled out. Savannah Badalich, Discord’s global head of product policy, said in an interview with The Verge that those servers will be “obfuscated” with a black screen until the user verifies they’re an adult. Users also won’t be able to join any new age-restricted servers without verifying their age.

Discord’s global age verification launch is part of a wave of similar moves at other online platforms, driven by an international legal push for age checks and stronger child safety measures. This is not the first time Discord has implemented some form of age verification, either. It initially rolled out age checks for users in the UK and Australia last year, which some users figured out how to circumvent using Death Stranding’s photo mode. Badalich says Discord “immediately fixed it after a week,” but expects users will continue finding creative ways to try getting around the age checks, adding that Discord will “try to bug bash as much as we possibly can.”

https://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-default-settings-globally

https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out

[Ayesha Erotica 1,924]

This Soviet Union Level of Surveillance, more companies will follow. 

[PartySick 172,972]

Guess I won't be using Discord anymore

[Taumaturg0 1,364]

good, I choose not to have children shouldn't have to keep other people's children in mind. Keep them out of social media 

[Murakami27 8,575]

Once again using children as an excuse to implement surveillance on the people and use and sell your biometrics. 

[Bronco 25,853]

5 minutes ago, Murakami27 said:

Once again using children as an excuse to implement surveillance on the people and use and sell your biometrics. 

Its not even about that.

Its the fact that the internet has outlived its value to the western elite and its now a bigger threat than a benefit to them. 

Now the goal is to drive people off the internet and isolate communities to prevent coordination.

[xxxdreams 168]

This has been a recent global trend. What ulterior motive could the elites possibly have? Makes you wonder.. 

[Red 99,187]

36 minutes ago, PartySick said:

Guess I won't be using Discord anymore

Are you a child?

[gagzus 23,417]

Almost every site where any form of adult entertainment in the uk here now requires that, most of us just use VPN’s

[gagzus 23,417]

also I always laugh when people make something into a conspiracy theory, because yes the government wants your Face ID to control you even though they have your details of where you live and have previously lived, your entire spending history, cookies on your computer, CCTV everywhere they know ur name, ur face and down to what debt you have and what you last bought to eat online but SURE this is different nnn

[Red 99,187]

1 minute ago, gagzus said:

also I always laugh when people make something into a conspiracy theory, because yes the government wants your Face ID to control you even though they have your details of where you live and have previously lived, your entire spending history, cookies on your computer, CCTV everywhere they know ur name, ur face and down to what debt you have and what you last bought to eat online but SURE this is different nnn

To be quite honest, I am always suspicious of people that are very worried about their privacy 👀 What exactly do you not want the government to know? 👀 

[gagzus 23,417]

Just now, Red said:

To be quite honest, I am always suspicious of people that are very worried about their privacy 👀 What exactly do you not want the government to know? 👀 

Sometimes I wonder 👀 but at the same time I always laugh when my grandmother for example says she refuses to pay on card so the government can’t track her, but she pays taxes and is a registered voter… I’m like ok girl 

[Red 99,187]

1 minute ago, gagzus said:

Sometimes I wonder 👀 but at the same time I always laugh when my grandmother for example says she refuses to pay on card so the government can’t track her, but she pays taxes and is a registered voter… I’m like ok girl 

Or my uncle that is convinced that the light sensor on his phone is an always-on hidden camera 

[PartySick 172,972]

10 minutes ago, Red said:

Are you a child?

No but I'm not giving my face and personal info to Discord just 'cause parents can't parent and keep their kids out of adult spaces. And let's be real, kids will find their way into adult spaces regardless, all things like this do is create a false sense of security in parents who aren't attentive enough.

Let's also be honest and acknowledge that it doesn't matter if it's ToS or a literal law passed, none of these rules are being put in place to actually protect kids  

I'd rather stop using a service than play their dumb games tbh.

[jsn 1,669]

Announced just in time for me to cut off my Nitro before it renews next week; all my friends are dropping their subs too.