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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FiniteArrows She~Her
MemberUh oh.
PookiePoo
MemberNow what did we learn
Peludo
Memberdon't think you're winning
for making your opponent more willing to win, I think
Borkbark
MemberDed?
Chimeratechspyro
MemberNo, still going on Twitter/Patreon. I find it hard to get time to tag shit properly and that's required on E6. I'm bulk uploading all of my stuff I have saved up that isn't Rivet right now, but the Rivet Comic is going to be like literally 100+ pages to individually tag. XD
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