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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cjkrythos
Memberman, I totally did this this year. I bought gifts for everyone months before even thanksgiving, forgot what I did with half of them, saw some good gifts on amazon for an excellent deal, bought them, then black friday came along, and I bought more, cyber monday, whole lot more(got 4 corsair hydro-cooling systems for gifts for $50 each) and then finally sat down to start wrapping, and remembered which closet I hid the original gifts in.
RazerFox
MemberYOur heart is in the right place for buying gifts to bring others happiness :3 I wish I had no limit on money then I'd help everyone out that needs it <3
cjkrythos
Membernow if only people would appreciate such thoughts and not vote positive comments down. But, appreciating positive things around furry fandom seems impossible, so I dont know why I even try.
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