Hmmmmmm.
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2026
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That's not all, though; some users are also unhappy not just with the age verification process itself and the security of their data, but also the people bankrolling Persona, which includes the investment fund of Palantir founder, Peter Thiel. Palantir is the data and surveillance company currently used by US federal agencies, including ICE, and Thiel's name appears 2000+ times in the Epstein files.
I used to think that people were massively overreacting about all this, but this is some pretty fucking suspicious connections.
How could it be possible to verify a photo without it leaving your device? That seems impossible.
They can't. Of course, they can't really do it on a remote server either but they choose to pretend they can. If they really wanted to, they could run it through a machine learning system on your phone and just send the result to discord. That wouldn't be secure, strictly speaking, but it would be good enough for this purpose. The kind of model they could send to a phone wouldn't be very reliable, but that's the problem they have anyway so nothing of value is lost
They can absolutely run the verification code client side, but they can't really fully trust the data being provided from client side since the client might be manipulated or a 3rd party client may have reverse engineered the API to bypass the verification.
Probably they made the decision that it's worth it to protect privacy (you know the thing people have been complaining about) weighed against that most teens probably won't figure out how to bypass the system.... which makes this sudden change (trial?) where it's being sent to a 3rd party anyway kind of odd.
We’re trying an experiment where instead of being free people are enclaved serfs.
"First time?"