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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Reader1
MemberI love how the queen looks both confused and disinterested at the same time.
TheChuggernaut
MemberDragons: stealing your chick since the 16th century.
AvantiHalfhorse
MemberNectanebus: Look, I was drunk and last night was just a one time thing. Don't take it personally.
user 185790
MemberWe see genuine pictures now and are incredibly sceptical CGI and photoshop. Many people in ancient times must have seen drawings and thought them actually real. In an age of illiteracy and superstition those who drew and painted were seen as immensely clever, they couldn't possibly make things up! It must have been a weird time to have lived.
bbwolf
MemberThis fair damsel is far from distressed!
Nathmurr
MemberLol, looks more like she’s saying “you sure about this?”
user 371613
MemberNot everyone believed the things they saw. Most people understood that art was speculative.
You do a great disservice of believing our ancestors were utter morons.
They really weren't all that different than from us in today's era. You ancient Greek skeptics existed. Atheism existed in the ancient world.
It'd do you well to do some research before making statements on things you obviously know little about.
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