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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Goobie II
Memberyo what happened to all of the other artwork?
secxndsun
Memberthey didn't want it on the site, to my knowledge
Goobie II
MemberThen why was the rest of the sfw stuff deleted?
Nimphia
PrivilegedNo idea where you got this from, Goob is still active as goobysart and draws Jordyn often. All the art under their tag currently is SFW art that's still up on their Twitter.
Melvin Ishtar
MemberHmm, not sure how you even replied to my comment since I hid it, I wish it was possible to delete comments, I don't really use twitter, I was basing my info off of his history/posts/info here and realized quickly that I was wrong soo I hid my comment hoping to hide it and prevent misinformation or backlash, my bad :(
Nimphia
PrivilegedDon't worry about it, I just replied right before you hid the comment lol
ChocoBagel
MemberI still wonder why they decided to take down all their old art, especially without also updating their dnp status (makes it kinda confusing whether they're okay or not with new posts of their art being made here)
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