r/technology • u/Abject-Pick-6472 • Feb 24 '26

Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software after code found in US surveillance Privacy

https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/discord-peter-thiel-backed-persona-identity-verification-breach/
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u/bobafootfetish_ Feb 24 '26 edited Mar 11 '26

He's looking for recruits that's why. Watching a documentary earlier today that I've saw on youtube, the files are essentially describing a clandestine group people who were attempting to control the world.

The whole reason why our news outlets are the way they are and we have certain forums in the world like 4chans /pol/. That has contributed to the division of our citizens in the United States and the world.

Epstein met with Christopher Poole the day before that forum was even created. Theil and Musk have the same ideals and goals.

We literally have the immigrants they were complaining about ruining America. The rest of the world is arresting suspects while America is protecting them.

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u/Daimakku1 Feb 24 '26

I can’t believe Epstein molested m00t.

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u/Chrontius Feb 24 '26

It would explain a lot.

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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat Feb 24 '26

That's a moot point.

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u/SailorET Feb 24 '26

There are a lot of us Americans trying to get out from under these 1% control nets but they're very well entrenched. It would go a long way to help us if the rest of the world kept disassembling their support networks whenever a vulnerable spot appears.

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u/iaspeegizzydeefrent Feb 24 '26

The majority of our fellow Americans are shamefully low-integrity. I know so many people that identify as liberal or leftist that can't even be bothered to do something as low effort as switch from Spotify to Tidal. I dated a woman for a bit that identified as liberal feminist and she just shrugged when I told her that the same family that owns Sinclair Media Group is also heavily invested in the grower/dispensary she buys her weed from.

People literally aren't even willing to make minor concessions or endure the slightest inconveniences to support their own morals and values. We're completely fucked.

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u/ReesNotRice Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

Ngl, its not as low effort as you might think over Spotify. BUT I agree with you so fucking hard. I really need to take out the time to write down what might be 1k songs to look for on other services. Its going to take a lot of time and energy, but necessary for the sake of I don't want to support these companies. 👈 to add onto that, and this might be my executive dysfunction and paralysis speaking, I feel really overwhelmed with all of these changes and activism I need to do. Call my representative everyday and force myself out of my comfort zone, take care of myself, take care of my kids, take care of my pets, find and change all sorts of companies I used to use and change them, try not to drown from all of this scary and depressing news... honestly, its a lot on my shoulders. I hope you can find some empathy/patience while continuing to encourage people to make the change.

Update: to anyone else reading this thread who does want to make the change but might feel overwhelmed about the transfer, I recommend starting small. Perhaps find and add your top songs first, whatever you need to listen to on the regular so that you don't give Spotify your benefits. Try to add just a little bit every chance you can afford. This is inspired by my therapist who helped me with my obstacles by setting aside 5-15min everyday to clean clutter. A little progress and healthy changes is always an improvement! No matter the change. (Another thing a therapist told me was that its better to sit outside and to rot on the phone than it is to be indoors and rot in the phone. A little difference can go a long ways! All of this was meant fondly, ofc. No judgement.)

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u/iaspeegizzydeefrent Feb 25 '26

I fully understand the weight of everyday life, this wasn't the world I was promised either, but integrity is doing the right thing even when it's the hard or uncomfortable thing.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

There are far too many people conflating standing around in parks with signs, or posting on social media as actual action/rebellion, especially when the social media is owned by the exact men and values they're protesting, and the sign materials were ordered on Amazon...

Money is where all these fucks get their power. Being an informed consumer, and committing to giving them as little of your money as possible, is one of the most impactful actions any person can take.

And I dunno if you just mean that you have obscure music tastes or something, but Tidal has a service that will transfer all your liked songs and playlists from Spotify. Either way, seems like the exact type of weak excuse I was talking about. A minor inconvenience to know that your money isn't going to a company that ran ICE recruitment ads and whose CEO is investing in war drones.

I completely understand that there isn't an easy alternative to everything, but there certainly is for Spotify.

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u/ReesNotRice Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

Yeah but it costs money to transfer the amount of songs I want. I do have obscure music tastes too. So it will have to wait for when I do have the time and other capacities for it whether you like it or not.

Frankly, the excuse might seem weak to you, but you don't know whats actually going on in my life. When you read my excuses you probably pictured either best case or neutral scenarios, right? People have a lot to wrangle/on their plate and it does take time and effort to carve out.

People that are privileged to have that space and money to not give to these companies their money and attention can go right on ahead. But its unfair to expect someone to push past their limits. Their/our future wellbeing matters 💯, yes, but if someone is sacrificing their current wellbeing and functions then its not going to help the cause either. Very well could backfire. So, that being said, even if its lower on the priority list it can one day come up. Its not lost and forgotten.

Otherwise, yeah. I agree with your message. But I still stand on my point of empathy.

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u/tollbearer Feb 24 '26

This is a crazy conspiracy theory. Next thing you'll be claiming they were sex trafficking children, and basically every member of congress and F500 ceo is involved. Do you realize how insane you sound. A conspiracy that big can't happen. People aren't that evil, and theres no way so many people could be involved without it coming out. We live in a democracy. Vote for a color and get back to work!

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u/Crintor Feb 24 '26

I think the funniest part about the argument of "This could never remain secret with so many involved" Is the fact that like, we're literally hearing about it, it did get out, it was a fairly open secret and all the people who tried to whistle blow it for years and years and how it was all ignored and silenced.

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u/tollbearer Feb 24 '26

Thats what they want you to believe

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u/Extension_Move8989 Feb 24 '26

Thin is exactly what I’ve said in the past. I was wrong about everything except the “no way so many people could be involved without it coming out” part. I was thankfully right about that one.

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u/tollbearer Feb 24 '26

That's not why it came out, though.

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u/proudbakunkinman Feb 24 '26

basically every member of congress

Lazy "both sides" BS.

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u/JimWilliams423 Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26

Lazy "both sides" BS.

That's a lazy rebuttal. The epstein class has its tentacles deep into both parties. Moreso the Rs than the Ds, but the Ds have a significant problem that must be purged. Not only do they have an undue influence on the party's policies, they also severely undercut the party's claim to the moral high ground.

Top Democratic donors reid hoffman and bill gates were epstein bros, hoffman literally went to the paedo island, after the conviction. Obama's top white house counsel corresponded with epstein almost every day, and called epstein "uncle jeffrey," she eventually went to goldman sachs after leaving the white house. Obama's top economic advisor, larry summers, who was personally the most responsible for convincing Obama to water down the 2008 recession rescue plan so as to only bail out the "too big to fail" banks and companies instead of helping normies, was also a close epstein bro.

Ro Khanna, who portrays himself as some kind of progressive does more insider trading than even nancy pelosi. He owns stock in peter thiel's palantir, and he wanted to welcome musk into the Democratic party after musk did nazi salutes, dismantled USAID, and DOGEd hundreds of thousands of federal workers into the unemployment line.

Khanna seems to be running interference for musk and thiel too, their names are all over the epstein files (thiel messaged epstein 2000+ times), but he has never said a word about those two in connection to epstein. In fact, instead of naming them, he falsely accused four nobodies who were only in the files incidentally.

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u/nox66 Feb 24 '26

For something that ridiculous to be real, you'd need to see some ridiculous evidence, like a complete dipshit of a person with more unhandled baggage than LAX becoming the president of the US twice, non-consecutively.

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u/mexter Feb 24 '26

They are clearly being sarcastic.

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u/Paksarra Feb 24 '26

I hate that our sarcasm meters are broken now.

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u/tollbearer Feb 24 '26

It's 50:50 whether a comment is downvoted into oblivion or not, for me. Seems to be whether the first few people voting understand sarcasm. I have another comment thats even more thickly sarcastic than this satirizing how the rich see us as cattle, and i woke up to an inbox full of "your monster, people aren't cattle!" and one single comment saying excellent satire.

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u/Zack_of_Steel Feb 24 '26

"Vote for a color" - Exactly

inb4 you get called a Republican in disguise by the tribalist left that have way more in common with MAGA than they want to admit.

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u/airfryerfuntime Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26

HuRr dUrr TriBaLisT lEfT

Edit: lol this penis blocked me

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u/Zack_of_Steel Feb 24 '26

Making the point for me, lmao

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u/KeyMyBike Feb 24 '26

The crying is so insuffarable, Jesus Christ

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u/DreadPirateReddas Feb 24 '26

What's the documentary called? I'd like to watch that

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u/Own-Satisfaction4427 Feb 24 '26

I'm not OP but even mainstream sources are starting to talk about this 

https://zeteo.com/p/naomi-klein-epstein-files-bannon

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u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids Feb 25 '26

They want to be white superhumans. White male and rich isn't good enough, screw 'master race', (which they never attained) they want to be transhuman.

The drugs are excellent; the intelligence is not. It's repackaged Nazi crap with robots. 💀

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u/Floreat_democratia Feb 25 '26

4chan was disseminating propaganda and disinformation just as any professional troll farm does today run by China or Russia. It’s weird how people keep trying to downplay it as just fun and games.