Persona age verification is owned majorly by thiel a known epstien associate and a person who is helping ICE kidnap people
Oshul
Thiel is the majority owner of persona the age verification provider for vrchat and he has been seen in the epstien files.
Not only that, he has a notorious history of privacy violations and is currently helping ICE agents with the capturing of families and american citizens.
I implore the devs to seek a new verification provider as association with somone like that puts the trust users have in vr chat at risk.
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Malaalei
Yo, the heck is this? Bad. Very bad. Obscene decision for VRC to do.
FletcherVeyluu
Even as someone who has already been age verified, I’m seconding this. A huge proportion of VRChat’s user base are BIPOC and/or LGBTQ, and using a company that’s in any way involved with Peter Thiel puts them all at serious risk. It also makes me very uncomfortable as a Jewish person, as Thiel rubs elbows with some pretty nastily antisemitic people.
I’m really starting to sour on the idea of age verification in general, I think it mostly just puts people at risk, but if you HAVE TO, then pick a different service, preferably one that isn’t involved with shady people and is actually beholden to privacy regulations. Maybe an EU based company?
ckochi
FletcherVeyluu I have a question, what used to justify age verification for you? What effect did you expect it to have?
I started to hold back since many similar laws appeared to enforce this to popular platforms.
ckochi
I'm against age verification stuff in general, but I support this because Persona doesn't look good at all.