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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Azzuen
MemberGave it my best shot on Runic to English translation.
Black Red Sun
MemberI thought Runic was a literal dead language.
AellaLilis
MemberIt is, more or less.
Kinda like Latin.
Black Red Sun
MemberNo, I meant like nobody can bloody translate or understand it.
Aya
MemberIt's not that bad, really. Runes correspond pretty much one to one to the Latin alphabet, except for a few differences. Norse, the language they spoke back when they used runes, isn't that hard either, because it's very similar to modern Icelandic. If you know Icelandic, you can probably read Norse without much issue.
thevoreguy99
MemberXD!!! am i a nerd for knowing what this is and how to read it? its called the futhark alphabet and it was used some time around the viking age.
morriganstern
Memberlooks like you confused ᚦ/þ and ᚹ/w, but apart from that…
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