The UK has announced plans to fast-track legislation requiring “age verification for VPN use”. The correct term, however, is not age verification but identity verification.

A law like this would require everyone to identify themselves in order to use a VPN. This would pose a risk to whistleblowers, violate human rights, and represent yet another step toward an authoritarian society.

Since Tenor's API is dying, Discord is looking to replace it with the services of a company called Klipy. Klipy have extensively astroturfed Reddit and lie about scraping Tenor's GIF library

I can't do anything but I'm posting so I can say "I told you so" when something weird happens in 2030