

Here’s a report by Malwarebytes about it. https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/02/age-verification-vendor-persona-left-frontend-exposed
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Here’s a report by Malwarebytes about it. https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/02/age-verification-vendor-persona-left-frontend-exposed


Did you not read the Twitter thread? The facial verification is done by OpenAI and shared with Palantir, the DOJ, and ICE. Yes, including Roblox’s. What makes you think the DOJ would NOT try to build a profile on someone going through age verification who’s brown enough to be considered an “illegal” and possibly detain or deport them if they criticize ICE?


Because those parents are pushing for age verification stuff, that has already been confirmed by hackers to be sent straight to the DOJ and ICE to make a database and link people’s internet profiles to their real names. With possibly the intention to either arrest people for criticizing ICE, or deporting people they DEEM to be illegals.


It’s not a fallacy, you fucking idiot, IT IS LITERAL FUCKING REALITY. They got fucking CAUGHT RED HANDED by a bunch of hackers using OpenAI to give the IDs from Discord to ICE, to either silence critics or kidnap more people.
Get your head out of the damn sand. You’re not helping. Every single attempt to age check is the government simply trying to tie your online identity to your real identity to punish you eventually, and this administration does not give a rat’s ass about the constitution. At some point they WILL attempt to arrest or deport people for online speech.
EDIT: Malwarebytes just reported on this. https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/02/age-verification-vendor-persona-left-frontend-exposed


That could work but I dunno if Roblox would even want to put on the effort (given that they banned a man exposing pedophiles in the platform), and also having moderators means they ARE a point of failure since there could be a groomer amongst them who just happens to not have criminal records. However, trying to childproof the internet in response to things like this is beyond stupid.


Seat belts are different because if someone is in a car is not wearing one and carrying passengers, that person will become a 200 pound pinball in case of a crash and crush everyone else to death. Do YOU want to sign away your ability to criticize Trump and ICE because some dipshit parent didn’t do what they’re supposed to fucking do and got their kid groomed?


You’re not allowed to take someone else’s rights because someone else is a fucking irresponsible idiot. That’s not how this works.


I think the point he’s trying to make is that parents are not teaching kids to be safe in the internet and instead are asking for daddy government to do their parenting for them, without being aware that what they’re doing is signing away the rights of LITERALLY EVERYONE ELSE to criticize the government in the future without getting put on a fucking list (Discord’s age verification literally sends your info to Palantir and Peter Thiel and profiles the person, especially if they’re avid Trump or ICE critics). There were plenty of platforms for kids back in the day, they all had this problem (somewhat), but it was nowhere near as concerning as before because the kids in the 2000’s were warned multiple times by their parents to exercise caution when using the internet.


As much as I think this is all terrible and that Roblox SHOULD answer for some of this shit, the fact of the matter is, PARENTS ARE NOT TEACHING KIDS HOW TO BE SAFE IN THE INTERNET. They just throw a fucking tablet or phone or console or PC screen in front of their eyes and refuse to do ANYTHING resembling parenting, and when their kid inevitably gets groomed they blame the platform and ask for daddy government to do their parenting for them and ask for things like age verification, which at least on Discord is literally being used to profile people criticizing the Trump administration and ICE.
Set parental controls, teach kids to not trust strangers and give them basic internet safety tips, and none of this shit will ever happen. Don’t sign away the rights of other adults because you’re a terrible fucking parent.


The second amendment itself prevents ammunition from being marked out of people’s budget. Two, people could just reload their own bullets. Three, bullets are extremely cheap to manufacture and making them cost that much would be a scam on the levels of health insurance companies. Also, did you forget about what a certain bearded man said in 1898?



The woes of having English as a second language lol


Turns out that having an explosion and air expulsion from the same explosion right in your temple is not conductive to safety.


I think he was referring to liberals, which most leftists do not consider to be part of them at all.


And most of those laws are either stupid, out of touch, racist, or multiple of those. In a fair amount of times it’s all three.


Probably planning who to kick straight into purgatory next.
(zebras are dickheads)


They are essentially trying to regulate technology they know very little about.
That’s not surprising, that’s just what politicians do. Especially politicians who are 65+ years old and completely out of touch with technology.


HEY CALIFORNIA DO YOU KNOW WHO IS LEADING THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE RIGHT NOW??? WHY ARE YOU COMING UP WITH THIS AT ALL, LET ALONE WITH THIS ADMINISTRATION IN POWER???
Oh wait, Gavin Newsom is the governor, that explains everything. Of course the DINO who’s only mad at Trump for stealing his spotlight would try to push a stupid law like this.


Yes, there have been so far 17 leaks lmao. But at least THIS isn’t a leak… technically.
Or what? What consequences? Say it with your whole chest, removed. Trump couldn’t intimidate a paper bag holding his McDonald’s.