KOSA and related bills are up for vote in the House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee on Thursday, and I wanted to make a thread on what YOU can do to stop it! If you aren't aware of what KOSA is, the EFF has a great article here: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Thread below!
Although Valentine's day may have been a week past, It seems one rabbit still couldn't resist showing off while the month was still around
Ahh XD, still a fun design tho!
Any plans with Roxa?
Commission for @heimko.bsky.social
Marron Dorna, creature of the night
Although Valentine's day may have been a week past, It seems one rabbit still couldn't resist showing off while the month was still around
Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults.
And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!
Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)
Paper Mario Sticker Star
I don't need to explain further
A while back a good friend of mine sketched my oc Mira with theirs having a little close moment together, and recently I managed to line and color that drawing to the best I could with what I had, and today here it is! Double the Canine Cuteness with these two!🌙
#FurryArt
A while back a good friend of mine sketched my oc Mira with theirs having a little close moment together, and recently I managed to line and color that drawing to the best I could with what I had, and today here it is! Double the Canine Cuteness with these two!🌙
#FurryArt
Geats?
And there’s a federal version of this bill that you should tell your lawmakers to support.
www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/data...
tangled together?
Happy New Year!, Let's make 2026 a better year!
@exoticcrystal.bsky.social Surprised me this year with a pic of my lovely Jackal Variel, and it looks like these two definitely know they got it!
cute
#savespeech #stopKOSA
ATTENTION! The House of Energy and Commerce has pushed a package of(now 18) "child safety" bills to a subcommittee markup.
This means the bills will be likely voted on to go to a FULL committee markup, which sends it out to the House.
Call the Committee. Tell them to vote NO
Seems not to be the final vote, more a checkpoint. But call anyways. You will receive a call that upon answering, routes you to representatives. Doesn't take long. The people on the other end of the line are patient, and worst case, you leave a message
Friend did a sketch of my Panda, and over the past week i did some lining and coloring as practice, with this being the end result! #FurryArt
Gastrodon or Iron Valiant
Mother Dryad and her Bushel of Brambles
The records of Ellis Landry Curtis, a man who told me about him and his friend's venture to a Mr Cutter house. A place filled with rumors and mysteries. Reader beware, you're in for quite the scare~
Snuffkin pointing at something while Moomin holds a cross covered in Carrots and Onions... for some reason?
60's Moomin was a different kind of Moomin
you got a good point there 😆
guess that means no Star Panda lol
Do Luna and Sol have a third sibling?
So, Who was the Gravity Falls fan who decided to bank on Summerween?
#Halloween
it's Raven Team Leader
Sounds fun
Here be a panda lol
gonna midball it and say, probably 90?
