We won the debate, 89 against to 30 for :) Professor Anthony Glees was entertaining as usual, engaging in some choice remarks about civil liberties organisations' views placing privacy "over" security, in effect arguing for neither.

@joepublic.bsky.social I think they have a way to go before MS is fully removed, mind you, but these are big steps

@ret yes indeed, they haven’t said anything to my knowledge

@ret I guess the point is that the customer support system was given the task of dealing with age verification, where the AV system had failed. So it (perhaps unexpectedly, without due thought and attention) formed part of Discord's AV systems, and it proved less robust than needed.

@jonquark @openrightsgroup It is definitely a significant risk, I think the HO eVisa app works like this. And of course, eVisas don’t work except on an app; in both cases the systems will make some people very dependent on relatives or partners who are abusive.

@jim Tech Gets Real is now live on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/7kVl0RrTJLFJSo1XVYDc2a and Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-gets-real/id1841869425

@superglaze Great news! Are you doing an audio version as well, or just YT?

@Sunraku Yes - you have to know this tho! It does not say this anywhere on threads.com profiles.

IDK how complicated migrating the domain from https://www.threads.net to https://www.threads.com would be, but not advertising it to users or making any provision for this is dire. #fediverse #threads #meta