Oh, good: Discord’s age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel

PC Gamer

By Lincoln Carpenter

February 13, 2026

Last week, Discord invited the contempt of its users by announcing it will be rolling out global age verification restrictions in March, which will restrict viewable content and communities for users who don’t scan either their faces or government IDs and haven’t already been determined to be an adult by unspecified prediction algorithms. Approximately nobody thought this was cool.

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