Discord Distances Itself from Peter Thiel's Palantir Age Verification Firm

Re:Discord Distances Itself from Peter Thiel's Palantir Age ... by hinata08 on Sunday February 15, 2026 @07:51AM (#47023290)

To do the Simpsons quotes like suggested in the article, Discord picking age verification "third party providers" definitely looks like they park various vans across the street. One of them didn't delete IDs properly and leaked them.

Now Peter Thiel's Age verification truck has been parked across the street for 2 weeks. How long does it take to deliver a pizza ?

They need to replace it with Flowers By Irene van ? Who wants to create that company and try to sell it ?

I'm dumbfounded that a big tech company that says they take age verification so seriously just subcontracts that part to this set of various subcontractor with no apparent vetting.

I do love Discord as a platform, but I don't understand who steers it.

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Re:Discord Distances Itself from Peter Thiel's Palantir Age ... by sinnsro on Sunday February 15, 2026 @08:40AM (#47023577)

Executives who focus on the financial side of things and do not care about correctness in operations are the ones steering lots of companies nowadays. Boeing is a good example/case study on how financialisation eats up companies from the inside by emphasising monetary results over actual engineering.

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Re:Discord Distances Itself from Peter Thiel's Palantir Age ... by temp84858696945 on Sunday February 15, 2026 @02:14PM (#47026484)

I get the feeling they do not in fact take age verification seriously and just want to do the low effort solution needed to satisfy various countries laws.

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