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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ClF3
MemberWell, time to wait a week to 2 months to find out what's being said because I'm useless at translations.
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...why does there need to be censor bars, the artist put alot of effort into their work, then they just slap on some rectangles, you can still see what they're supposed to hide, so it's not like they accomplish anything other than breaking up some really good line work... no, I am not butt hurt!
... ok, I am...
...I'll just go and hide in this corner over here.
sorry!
Skies
MemberEvading stupid japanese laws, really. Malicious compliance level of doing enough to be legal and not enough to make it do anything noticeable
Subcontent
MemberIf you saw some hot stuff being hide too many times ,you may feel it just gonna get hotter to be hidden
thats how Sexuality can develop
GoonAssYeen
Memberyou mean fetishes?
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