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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JFrankParnell
Member“ 'Fraid you're right, Mr. Helpmann. He's not the momma.”
Bongani
MemberBrazil had infamously been sat on by Universal's head boss for the US release due to him disagreeing with the original script's depressing ending (and demanding a rewrite to a happier ending, which Gilliam understandably baulked at), prompting Gilliam to take out a full-page ad in Variety point-blank asking when the film would be released.
They would only relent after LAFCA awarded Gilliam's original cut (which he had been screening privately without Universal's permission) with "Best Picture", "Best Director", and "Best Screenplay" awards on the same night that Out of Africa (another award bait film on Universal's slate) was released, with the US release coming ten months after its French and UK release.
Icewolf71
MemberHow is this the only Richfield pic on here?
Gaian-Commander
MemberYou'll understand if you have seen the entire series.
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