alt Hacker News> 1. A way for politicians and the state to track porn habits to US citizens and use that information against them in the future.
This topic really brings out the crazy conspiracy theories.
No, politicians are not using Discord age verification to track constituents' porn habits and blackmail them with it later.
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You poor summer child.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEXINT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexpionage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Vassall
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/how-no...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/nsa-tracking-online-po...
https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/echoing-dirty-pa...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/27/nsa-files-live...
It's such a successful strategy, even Bitcoin scammers use it:
https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/extortion-spam/25070/
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/27/asia/south-korea-telegram...
It's as crazy of a conspiracy as the NSA listening to your phone calls or ICE will arrest American citizens.
It's a few years too late to call it just a theory when it's already happening. There have loads of "hacks" where nudes and dating profiles with photos are somehow leaked. There's a zero percent chance they somehow decide Discord or specific porn sites are safe, don't worry, just upload those full face and ID scans bro.