EFF is against age verification mandates, including Discord's new policy requiring face scans or IDs for full access to the platform.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFF is against age verification mandates, including Discord's new policy requiring face scans or IDs for full access to the platform. Here are some things to consider if you're planning to continue using Discord next month. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/so-youve-hit-age-gate-what-now

Gary "grim" Kramlich

@eff If you hit an age gate on discord create a new hosted or self hosted @zulip server

Alias2

@eff

We will abandon Discord and move to a Matrix server.