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Texas to force social media app to scan user faces, IDs for access
Posted on 8/9/26 at 1:56 pm
Posted on 8/9/26 at 1:56 pm
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If tweet fails to load, click here. A Texas court has ordered Discord to turn on the age-verification system it built for the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act for every user in the state. Britain’s age-check regime has reached America by court order, and opening or keeping a Discord account in Texas can now mean a face scan or a government ID.
Today a Texan opens an account with an email address and a self-reported birthday, nothing more. The injunction imports that system instead. By Discord’s own published account, more than 90 percent of users are never asked to confirm their age, facial age estimation runs on the user’s own phone, and identity documents go to a third-party vendor rather than to Discord. The reassurance holds only for the users the system never questions. For everyone else, the account now comes with a face scan or a government ID handed to an outside company.
Under the order, Discord must route messages from strangers into a separate request inbox and block sensitive content for Texas teens unless it confirms the user is an adult. It must also close adult-only spaces to anyone it has not age-assured, according to the attorney general’s office. The state says these are the protections Discord already gives British children under the Online Safety Act and withheld from Texas.
Attorney General Ken Paxton called the ruling a historic victory. “Discord built a platform where adult predators could hunt Texas children, then looked parents in the eye and told them it was safe,” he said in a statement. His office says Discord submitted 489,782 reports of suspected child sexual exploitation to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in 2025, more than 1,300 a day. Under cross-examination, Discord’s lawyers drew out that those reports largely amount to the company flagging crimes it finds on its own platform and passing them to the center.
New Jersey sued before Texas did, and Nevada, Indiana, and Arkansas have taken their own legal action
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Posted on 8/9/26 at 2:53 pm to RelicBatches86
Native Texan here… Texas has become an embarrassment due to our judges and political leaders.
We are being overrun by dirty muslims and indians. And now judges are trying to take away our anonymity???
Terrible
We are being overrun by dirty muslims and indians. And now judges are trying to take away our anonymity???
Terrible
Posted on 8/9/26 at 2:57 pm to RelicBatches86
Not voting for the tranny lover but Just lost my vote, frick Paxton and their ilk for focusing on this bullshite
This post was edited on 8/9/26 at 2:58 pm
Posted on 8/9/26 at 3:00 pm to Django Unchained
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Texas has become an embarrassment due to our judges and political leaders.
Paxton is trying real hard to fall on his face. Just like Dan Patrick's weird crusade against weed.
At least I'm guessing you don't have to deal with Lina Hidalgo (I know you meant actual judges, not county "judges".)
Posted on 8/9/26 at 3:04 pm to RelicBatches86
Is this a law passed by the legislature, or just fiat?
Posted on 8/9/26 at 3:08 pm to LemmyLives
Ha! I’m in North Texas so I do NOT have to deal with that freak!
But 60% of my son’s middle school is Indian. That’s my struggle. I’m petitioning the City of Prosper to change out name to New Bangalore
But 60% of my son’s middle school is Indian. That’s my struggle. I’m petitioning the City of Prosper to change out name to New Bangalore
Posted on 8/9/26 at 3:08 pm to RelicBatches86
all the Talerico bro’s are making a push today on the PB! Cute.
Posted on 8/9/26 at 3:09 pm to RelicBatches86
Politics is a circle not a spectrum.
The Texas GOP are so far right they’re almost left, doing what communists and socialists do… more government less freedom.
The Texas GOP are so far right they’re almost left, doing what communists and socialists do… more government less freedom.
This post was edited on 8/9/26 at 3:10 pm
Posted on 8/9/26 at 3:10 pm to Django Unchained
preach Posted on 8/9/26 at 3:52 pm to RelicBatches86
Texas becoming like California?
Posted on 8/9/26 at 3:54 pm to RelicBatches86
What is going on in Texas these days? We can't afford for them to become the next large blue state 
Posted on 8/9/26 at 3:54 pm to Django Unchained
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But 60% of my son’s middle school is Indian. That’s my struggle. I’m petitioning the City of Prosper to change out name to New Bangalore
Sorry to hear about this. Jeez.
Posted on 8/9/26 at 4:30 pm to RelicBatches86
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Discord built a platform where adult predators could hunt Texas children,
Discord submitted 489,782 reports of suspected child sexual exploitation to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in 2025, more than 1,300 a day.
You lost your hunting grounds perv?
Posted on 8/9/26 at 4:53 pm to RelicBatches86
Paxton is a notch above Talarico. Just like most GOP
Posted on 8/9/26 at 4:57 pm to Tigers0891
Don't mess with Texas was just cosplay
Posted on 8/9/26 at 5:08 pm to RelicBatches86
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The agreed temporary injunction
Posted on 8/9/26 at 5:11 pm to BBONDS25
Way to throw the election paxton
Posted on 8/9/26 at 5:12 pm to LChama
How much you want to bet he wins? And what do you think Paxton has to do with this temporary injunction?
Stop being hysterical…
Stop being hysterical…
This post was edited on 8/9/26 at 5:14 pm
Posted on 8/9/26 at 5:19 pm to RelicBatches86
Once cigarettes were available in easily accessible vending machines we did away with them and inconveniently forced adults to go to a store with a clerk to verify their age for the safety of kids.
This is a similar move at some point we have to prioritize our children's welbeing over all the uninhibited conveniences of the Internet and social media. Its easy enough to not use social media if you are that worried about your anonymity however our kids are being targeted and it is not easy as parents to keep them away from it when all a kid has to do is get internet access and click a box that they are over the age of 13.
This is a similar move at some point we have to prioritize our children's welbeing over all the uninhibited conveniences of the Internet and social media. Its easy enough to not use social media if you are that worried about your anonymity however our kids are being targeted and it is not easy as parents to keep them away from it when all a kid has to do is get internet access and click a box that they are over the age of 13.
Posted on 8/9/26 at 6:30 pm to Django Unchained
1984 w/Sharia Law
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