"Discord Distances itself from Peter Thiel's Palantir Age Verification Firm" means jack shit if they're still doing business with them.

And Discord has approached this in such a monstrously awful way that I don't know what they could possibly say at this point to make me believe them.

I fully expect Discord will buddy-buddy right back up with some other Thiel-affiliated company if there is a separation if not go right back to them once the heat dies down.

To do the Simpsons quotes like suggested in the article, Discord picking age verification "third party providers" definitely looks like they park various vans across the street. One of them didn't delete IDs properly and leaked them.

Now Peter Thiel's Age verification truck has been parked across the street for 2 weeks. How long does it take to deliver a pizza ?

They need to replace it with Flowers By Irene van ? Who wants to create that company and try to sell it ?

I'm dumbfounded that a big tech company that says they take age verification so seriously just subcontracts that part to this set of various subcontractor with no apparent vetting.

I do love Discord as a platform and I happily took subscriptions for me and some friends, but I don't understand who steers it.

Ding ding ding. Matter of time, this is merely damage control until the news cycle fades into the next.