I wonder if they could face legal consequences for this

So is that a lie?

It always was and it will always be. Data is the real commodity and Discord had no intention of wasting it when they could profit from it. This applies to ALL "free" products offered by corporations. You are and have always been the product.

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is this not from the stolen support tickets? some of which were related to id verification? 70k users is a very low number for discord.

** slips a note under your door that reads, "IRC" **

Revolt is an option. But it needs people and communities.

If you want to just text-chat and/or voice-chat with some friends, Element(Matrix) works well

But if you're a gamer looking for bigger communities, I don't know one

Oh, they did that? That's IMHO a thousand times worse than just getting hacked...

May they get beaten to pulp by privacy lawyers in court.

wish

There are as many as stars in the sky to wish over, so no problem over there.

The problem is people.

They're doing it for control and to remove the anonymity of online accounts. The leaks are just the cost of doing business to them. Discord might not be saving every ID and associating it to the account name/etc, but the NSA/etc definitely is.

Age verification. Why? Because some politicians have a boner for control.

I think is is related to the new age verification systems. Everyone was saying this is a bad idea but governments are basically making it required for some of these services.

The UK - along with several US states - is enforcing a bunch of age verification bullshit to "protect the children." Not that the tech companies have pushed back on this in the slightest; they love that it let's them collect more data on users. But they couldn't get away with it if it wasn't a legal requirement.

They bought into the "age verification" scam.