The agreed injunction gives Discord 90 days to route Texas users into the same face scans and ID checks it already runs for children in Britain.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n![\"Texas](\"https:\/\/media.reclaimthenet.org\/2026\/07\/ZMczHTqZ3qur-1024x576.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nBy Ken Macon<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Texas court has ordered Discord to turn on the age-verification system it built for the United Kingdom\u2019s Online Safety Act<\/a> for every user in the state. Britain\u2019s age-check regime has reached America by court order, and opening or keeping a Discord account in Texas can now mean a face scan or a government ID.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe agreed temporary injunction, signed by a Collin County judge, gives Discord 90 days to extend its age-assurance and default settings to Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We obtained a copy of the temporary injunction for you here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe company can still ask the court for more time if it shows the deadline is not feasible. Discord must serve the Texas Attorney General\u2019s Office a confidential progress report every 30 days until it complies, and the order binds the company until final judgment, enforceable by contempt. The order lets Discord identify Texas users from data it already holds rather than gather new categories of personal information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today a Texan opens an account with an email address and a self-reported birthday, nothing more. The injunction imports that system instead. By Discord\u2019s own published account, more than 90 percent of users are never asked to confirm their age, facial age estimation runs on the user\u2019s own phone, and identity documents go to a third-party vendor rather than to Discord<\/a>. The reassurance holds only for the users the system never questions. For everyone else, the account now comes with a face scan or a government ID handed to an outside company.<\/p>\n\n\n\nUnder the order, Discord must route messages from strangers into a separate request inbox and block sensitive content for Texas teens unless it confirms the user is an adult. It must also close adult-only spaces to anyone it has not age-assured, according to the attorney general\u2019s office. The state says these are the protections Discord already gives British children under the Online Safety Act and withheld from Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Texas\u2019s expert told the court that extending Discord\u2019s existing safety features to the state was \u201cjust a matter of turning it on for Texas.\u201d Discord runs the age-assurance system in the UK, Australia, and Brazil<\/a>, its witnesses testified. In Texas the company still relies on a self-reported birthday at signup, a fact it did not dispute for the order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nBy Ken Macon<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Texas court has ordered Discord to turn on the age-verification system it built for the United Kingdom\u2019s Online Safety Act<\/a> for every user in the state. Britain\u2019s age-check regime has reached America by court order, and opening or keeping a Discord account in Texas can now mean a face scan or a government ID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The agreed temporary injunction, signed by a Collin County judge, gives Discord 90 days to extend its age-assurance and default settings to Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We obtained a copy of the temporary injunction for you here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The company can still ask the court for more time if it shows the deadline is not feasible. Discord must serve the Texas Attorney General\u2019s Office a confidential progress report every 30 days until it complies, and the order binds the company until final judgment, enforceable by contempt. The order lets Discord identify Texas users from data it already holds rather than gather new categories of personal information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today a Texan opens an account with an email address and a self-reported birthday, nothing more. The injunction imports that system instead. By Discord\u2019s own published account, more than 90 percent of users are never asked to confirm their age, facial age estimation runs on the user\u2019s own phone, and identity documents go to a third-party vendor rather than to Discord<\/a>. The reassurance holds only for the users the system never questions. For everyone else, the account now comes with a face scan or a government ID handed to an outside company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Under the order, Discord must route messages from strangers into a separate request inbox and block sensitive content for Texas teens unless it confirms the user is an adult. It must also close adult-only spaces to anyone it has not age-assured, according to the attorney general\u2019s office. The state says these are the protections Discord already gives British children under the Online Safety Act and withheld from Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Texas\u2019s expert told the court that extending Discord\u2019s existing safety features to the state was \u201cjust a matter of turning it on for Texas.\u201d Discord runs the age-assurance system in the UK, Australia, and Brazil<\/a>, its witnesses testified. In Texas the company still relies on a self-reported birthday at signup, a fact it did not dispute for the order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n