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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cobaltsnow
Memberjapan, y u censor?
seriously do you get beaten or something if you draw uncensored dick in porn? who's got the dick copyright?
Peekaboo
Privileged"Porn was first seriously restricted in Japan in the Meiji Era, when materials deemed “injurious to public morals” were banned [thanks to the introduction of Victorian morals from the West]. After Japan’s defeat in WW2, American occupation authorities changed many of Japan’s laws to guarantee freedom of speech and expression. Sadly, the occupation authorities decided that the pre-existing law regarding pornography didn’t need to be changed. It has remained in effect to this day."
cobaltsnow
MemberThat is interesting, as stupid as it is.
It is distributed through the internet though so unless this was found on an "official" japanese hentai site I don't see why they still bother to censor it.
thankfully it's not too obscured, we can basically still see the action, just like it was real bad quality, lol
WolfreD
Memberstupid censor!
Freakonomicon
MemberWe should run a campaign against the strict Porn censorship in Japan...
RocketZX
MemberI think this censorship rule will be pulled soon
I mean look at the anime in japan, seriously!? things they consider a normal TV series have tits everywhere!
Queens Blade the anime, enough said...
RatherHeavy
MemberThere's a protest I'd love to join.
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