TeamSpeak overwhelmed as users flee Discord age-verification checks

TeamSpeak says its servers have been overwhelmed by an influx of users upset over Discord’s global age-verification rollout. The company posted to X, warning that "current hosting capacity has been reached in many regions, especially in the United States," and attributed the disruption to "the incredible surge of new users joining TeamSpeak and subscribing to communities," while saying it is "working on expanding availability across additional regions." The push for age checks grew out of the UK Online Safety Act, which requires verification on social platforms and adult sites and has prompted site blocks and other workarounds.

Discord has said it will roll similar verifications worldwide this March, a move made more controversial after a hack exposed private age-verification documents for 70,000 users and after Discord distanced itself from a potential verification firm linked to Peter Thiel and Palantir.

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