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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Flux3980
MemberLosing it at the way COVID is tagged as a copyright
Espenebs
MemberI think people in general are just memeing it
gremlinfella
MemberHey you never know when a worldwide pathogen will come knocking on your door with a cease and desist and a crackpot army of lawyers.
Among other things.
cursedinfernus
MemberThat dialogue is gold
cumwizard
MemberThat just reminds me of how extremely poorly a lot of COVID related shit from its early days has aged.
And I can't dismiss all of it as simply a case of hindsight being 20/20.I Eat Cereal
MemberI need an alt where batman is being interrogated the same way
davehole
Memberand is this "proof" in the room with us now?
Joemother7712017
MemberNah it's in Wuhan
404namenotfound
MemberThis didn't age well
tentacleumbra
MemberDont. Let. Her. Rest.
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