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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Lathaniel
MemberCats have barbed dicks,essentially spikes
Freyndeer
MemberThis is correct. Going on a tangent, most of the facts around how cats mate and why a cat's penis is barbed most humans would consider entirely awful and especially unethical. Evolution was not kind, but that's nature!
Jordan9967
MemberCactus
StoneGuardian
MemberI'm more concerned that she seems to know what it feels like to get a cactus shoved up in there.
DireWolfShawn
MemberThat must feel, not very nice
Seeing as cacti are known for being unpleasant to touch
MrMcLime
MemberSo I actually did a little digging about this, because I’d heard it before but I always found it questionable. Everything I can find on this subject says that, while they are painful, the barbs are actually meant to induce ovulation. I actually can’t even find anything that says they’re meant to cause injury, or that they do at all.
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