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You can see an official update from two weeks ago here (link)

Screenshot from the article:

You can see what Incode is here (link) and you can see how they handle your data here (link)

But, there is a chance that they could hold onto your Age Verification Information for up to 45 days, which is more than enough time for hackers to get ahold of your ID, and that would be borderline inevitable, since the UK already suffered from Discord getting hacked and it massively affecting citizens in the UK.

You can read about the hack here (link)

Just because the original article is from March doesn't negate that Discord has said, literally as of two weeks ago, they still intend to push age verification despite the push back from users.

And this is also being brought forward again after they implemented a new CSAM detection hash that falsely banned users for sharing pictures that happened to have a grid or similar pattern in it. Meaning at least 200 people were falsely banned and potentially falsely reported to the police as well.

The latter bit is just speculation, do not take it wholly as fact as of the time of this post. Discord does say that if they suspect CSAM, they do report to the authorities, and I don't know if it would have to be a manual report or if it's an automatic report.

If someone were, as a random example, say hospitalized for over two weeks with no explanation, I think that should automatically trigger a special election to replace them.

If you're still able to do your job, then prove it. And if you're not, then you're actively obstructing democracy by not stepping down.

Which is to say, that if a public official were to pass away or into a coma, and their handlers choose to obfuscate that fact, this should be seen as intentionally obstructing democracy.

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I then ask, "what would it be like if you could simply give us feedback, have us graciously receive it, reflect, and work to change the behavior?" Recently, a man of color sighed and said "it would be revolutionary."

I ask my fellow whites to consider the profundity of that response. It would be revolutionary if we could receive, reflect and work to change the behavior. On the one hand, the man's response points to how difficult and fragile we are. But on the other hand, it indicates how simple it can be to take responsibility for our racism."