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.
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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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ThunderKitten
MemberThis is a very BAD idea...
ButDoesItRunLinux
MemberNot sure how "lying down when you are told" is necessarily a human trait.
Just the general description of Litwick gives me the heebie-jeebies. Gengar knows better, why doesn't Kecleon?
ThunderKitten
MemberIt's not, but it does suggest someone who has been trained to follow the order of another in battle without question. For a pokemon, that suggests that he had a trainer once.
ButDoesItRunLinux
MemberI get that, but that's only one of many possible explanations that need not involve humans. (E.g. Kecleon could have been in a rescue team and needed to trust his partners in a close fight.) For Jen to say "you did as you were told, therefore you were trained by a human" is fractured logic. (Flip that statement around and it'll make sense.)
The writing in this comic is so good in general that little wrinkles like this stand out...
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