Does Discord even have an community relations department, because they suck. Seriously what a stupid decision to just announce age verification and then provide no additional details or context.
This clarification pathetic attempt at backpedalling, isn't much better either, they've still provided essentially no information on exactly what the process is going to be, and exactly how it is going to work. I also do not like the fact that they're basically just giving up on any attempts to implement this themselves, and are going with third party solutions. We all know that "third party solutions" means the lowest bidder, so this will be implemented poorly with no operational security, and absolutely will result in a data breach.
I created my account at least 15 years ago so if they require age verification from me they're idiots.
Nope I don't trust them to use a US-based service. Also I don't think they're even allowed to as under EU law as all data held on users must be held on EU servers, so that solution wouldn't be a one size fits all.