Discord's promise to bring age verification worldwide read like a threat to many users of the mega-popular social platform, and the backlash was swift and loud. Today, the company has announced it's delaying the verification rollout to the second half of the year in a self-effacing 1,857-word blog post responding to criticism, penned by its co-founder. But the most important part of the message is this: age verification is still happening, whether you like it or not.
"Let me be upfront: we knew this rollout was going to be controversial," Discord co-founder Stanislav Vishnevskiy wrote in the announcement. "Any time you introduce something that touches identity and verification, people are going to have strong feelings. Rightfully so. In hindsight, we should have provided more detail about our intentions and how the process works."
