How does anyone know whether a family is engaging in that time-honored tradition of passing down accounts from grandfather, to father, to son, to child, and their posterity, in perpetuity?

Seriously though, unless you have positively identified the person who created the account in the first place, you have 0% chance of knowing whether it is the same person using it today.

Gamers sell their high-level accounts all the time. It would be a simple matter of economics that the Discord users with the oldest accounts sell them to 12-year-olds. Likewise, accounts are shared willy-nilly, whether or not that violates the rules. And accounts can be stolen or compromised, if you're really hard up.

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smrq 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How often do you suppose they will be re-checking your ID? Once every... never?

	▲	AJ007 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They need to have an always-on camera looking at the person using the device. No camera, no discord.

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RegnisGnaw 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No law or regulation is ever 100% effective in real life. Income tax is not collected 100% effectively. Should we not do it? Criminals are not caught 100% of the time, should we not do it?

Of course this won't be 100% effective, maybe 80-90% effective. That's all they need and expect from this system.

	▲	gjsman-1000 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly. HN is constantly obsessed with is it perfectly effective? No law, none, is perfectly effective. Speed limits certainly aren’t self enforcing, but remove your neighborhood’s speed limits first if you truly believe laws must be demonstrated perfect.

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ncr100 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So then it's REASONABLY not the corporation's fault if that user sees explicit content.

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Quillbert182 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

But under that argument, you would have to prove your age on a regular basis, the plan right now appears to be that each account would only need to do so once.

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pixl97 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Just remember that the Terms of Service you agreed to are about as firm as explosive diarrhea.

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RupertSalt 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You agree not to license, sell, lend, or transfer your account, Discord username, vanity URL, or other unique identifier without our prior written approval. We also reserve the right to delete, change, or reclaim your username, URL, or other identifier.

If transfer of accounts is a policy violation, then Discord has legal cover to confidently assert that, once ID is verified, the ID'd person is the owner and controller of the account thereafter.

Account selling, stealing, and sharing will certainly still happen, but that's grounds for banning, and not Discord's legal liability anymore.

	▲	Quillbert182 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Then why could they not also legally get away with using account age as a proxy?

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Ekaros 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Just ban that in TOS. As we know TOS is inviolable. As such it is not possible to sell, gift or otherwise transfer an account. At least this should be considered how it works for age verification. If account transfer is found out account can be terminated thus closing the loop hole.