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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CartaNegra
MemberWhy do they think this is better? When you banish a criminal into jail, exile, or eternal void THEY CAN STILL GET OUT!
Like, I get that people are against the death penalty sometimes for sensible reasons, but eternally preserving immortal-ish mass murderers is a mistake well known for allowing all the evil back out of the box (jar) when someone gets curious. How many phantom zone prison breaks do we need before someone decides you're better off making sure some problems don't get up again?
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