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by _V_ 29 days ago
Yeah, for some reason I ran into that issue, too. I'm not giving my governmental ID to some random corporation. If that means I can't use their services, then so be it.

Someone always has to be the first to say "no thanks" to their bs.
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Forgeties79 29 days ago
Yeah I basically told my discord friends that I’m not going to be held hostage with the threat of losing contact with them, so if they want to communicate with me they can hit me up by other means which I shared.
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frollogaston 29 days ago
How many people on Discord would really give ID? It's not Facebook; all their names are pseudonyms, and they're talking privately.
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Forgeties79 29 days ago
There is a significant subset of the population that has a lot of their social life on discord. They’re not going to let something as simple as ID verification cut them off from their friends. You and I know how important it is to protect PII, but we are probably older and remember a time when more importance was placed on protecting your identity.
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