April 10th: The bill has been vetoed!
April 2nd: The politicians in Arizona are about to sign into law a bill that would mandate sites like e621 to either impose age verification on all users or be at a risk of lawsuits. Such system would be required to go through third party vendors, who in turn must go through a government database to verify every user's age. This is not only a major violation of privacy, but it also opens up a very real danger of identity theft through phishing schemes and other methods, not to mention that we would not be able to control any of that information to make sure it is permanently deleted after age verification is complete.
Unfortunately, Arizona is the state out of which e621 operates, which means that this law will almost certainly affect us if it is to pass. If want to help us ensure that this site can continue to serve you without being required to know who you are, please ask the Arizona governor to veto this bill.
Please, help us get the word out by letting others know about this issue.
For some further information on what the bill does have a look at https://action.freespeechcoalition.com/bill/arizona-hb-2586/
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Plug-Chewin
Member"My daddy gae' me more than jus' his long tail."
Squirrelz
Member"Meowdy Purrtner! My I axe you a question? Do you know what happened to ma' hawk?"
(Alright,20 bucks for the pun jar)
Sharp Hand Joe
MemberSheriff: Who are you?
Beatrix: Those who know me call me Blade. Because I've got a habit of letting this do my talking for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaJOGsiLk2Y
NickelTheWise
Member"We all learn something important when huntin' dangerous game where I grew up, y'know why you should never wound something you ain't fit to kill?"
Her left arm took the gunshot, and dangled limply at her hip, but the right hand went to her back to reappear, holding a tomahawk sharp as printer-press paper, and dripping with black-red blood.
"Thus endeth the lesson." she growled, and closed the door firmly behind her. The only sounds were booted footfalls and an empty cylinder clicking wildly, over and over.
Then, a wet, hard crunch, then nothing.
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