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Users claim Discord's age verification can be tricked with video game characters
Discord users are claiming that you can use pictures of video game characters to bypass the platform's new age verification checks.
The instant messaging and VoIP platform, commonly used for gaming, implemented an age-check tool earlier this month for UK users in anticipation of a new set of laws aimed at restricting potentially harmful content for under-18s. It allows the broadcast and online regulator, Ofcom, to fine website and app hosts that don’t meet its age verification standards. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit specialising in “defending civil liberties in the digital world,” said the legislation is a “dangerous attempt to remake the internet.”
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