Discord to Demand Face Scan or ID to Access All Features
February 9, 2026
Discord’s age gates also hinge on constant behavioral monitoring that shadows users across the platform.
Discord’s age gates also hinge on constant behavioral monitoring that shadows users across the platform.
State lawmakers are racing to harden speech protections as Congress warns that Europe is already rewriting the rules for what Americans are allowed to say online.
Berlin treats the internet as annexed territory, asserting control wherever Germans can read a post.
Europe’s TikTok case treats “addiction” as the rationale, but age verification is the real infrastructure.
European policymakers are treating VPN adoption as behavior to be contained.
The new European coalition could make national internet laws a shared tool of control.
In Washington, they watched a continent trade liberty for censorship and call it progress. Now, that threat is coming across the Atlantic in the form of online censorship laws.
Spain’s social media ban for minors doubles as a test case for Europe’s expanding digital ID surveillance.
By voiding Hawaii’s law, the court signaled that the fear of deepfakes cannot outweigh the freedom to mock those in power.
Starmer’s government faces an unprecedented rebuke from Washington over digital laws once hailed as a model for safety.
Europe’s regulators used its leverage to make Silicon Valley enforce their speech rules worldwide.
By targeting platform executives instead of those committing offenses, France has turned speech regulation into an instrument of state coercion.
By tying legal protection to a Wyoming nexus, the state would invite creators and platforms targeted by the UK, EU, or Australia to anchor themselves in America’s newest free speech haven.
Washington plans to draw a bright legal line, barring foreign governments from fining American platforms over online speech.
The EU turned a Donald Duck parody and a blue checkmark into evidence of systemic harm, and somehow made it sound official.
A Los Angeles jury is about to decide whether social media design itself can be treated as a defective product in the eyes of American law.
It has been a bad week for TikTok, as technical excuses wear thin against a pattern of silence that, to some users, looks anything but random.
Another week, another threat from Brussels aimed squarely across the Atlantic.
A small-town dispute over graduation standards just became a landmark First Amendment victory for Texas parents.
A global coalition of regulators is quietly turning the open web into a gated community where every login begins with an ID check.
A law meant to block untraceable weapons might instead erase the right to tinker with your own tools.
The vote marks a stunning turn, pulling VPNs and private platforms into an age-check regime once unthinkable in a democracy.
Meta’s self-appointed court is finally confronting whether its own sense of justice can outlast the users it silences.
The Lords may think they’re saving children, but what they’re really saving is the government’s appetite for oversight.
Discord’s age gates also hinge on constant behavioral monitoring that shadows users across the platform.
State lawmakers are racing to harden speech protections as Congress warns that Europe is already rewriting the rules for what Americans are allowed to say online.
Berlin treats the internet as annexed territory, asserting control wherever Germans can read a post.
Europe’s TikTok case treats “addiction” as the rationale, but age verification is the real infrastructure.
European policymakers are treating VPN adoption as behavior to be contained.
The new European coalition could make national internet laws a shared tool of control.
In Washington, they watched a continent trade liberty for censorship and call it progress. Now, that threat is coming across the Atlantic in the form of online censorship laws.
Spain’s social media ban for minors doubles as a test case for Europe’s expanding digital ID surveillance.
By voiding Hawaii’s law, the court signaled that the fear of deepfakes cannot outweigh the freedom to mock those in power.
Starmer’s government faces an unprecedented rebuke from Washington over digital laws once hailed as a model for safety.
Europe’s regulators used its leverage to make Silicon Valley enforce their speech rules worldwide.
By targeting platform executives instead of those committing offenses, France has turned speech regulation into an instrument of state coercion.
By tying legal protection to a Wyoming nexus, the state would invite creators and platforms targeted by the UK, EU, or Australia to anchor themselves in America’s newest free speech haven.
Washington plans to draw a bright legal line, barring foreign governments from fining American platforms over online speech.
The EU turned a Donald Duck parody and a blue checkmark into evidence of systemic harm, and somehow made it sound official.
A Los Angeles jury is about to decide whether social media design itself can be treated as a defective product in the eyes of American law.
It has been a bad week for TikTok, as technical excuses wear thin against a pattern of silence that, to some users, looks anything but random.
Another week, another threat from Brussels aimed squarely across the Atlantic.
A small-town dispute over graduation standards just became a landmark First Amendment victory for Texas parents.
A global coalition of regulators is quietly turning the open web into a gated community where every login begins with an ID check.
A law meant to block untraceable weapons might instead erase the right to tinker with your own tools.
The vote marks a stunning turn, pulling VPNs and private platforms into an age-check regime once unthinkable in a democracy.
Meta’s self-appointed court is finally confronting whether its own sense of justice can outlast the users it silences.
The Lords may think they’re saving children, but what they’re really saving is the government’s appetite for oversight.