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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TheBigFish
MemberIsn't that the Terraria font?
Stooty Lil Guy
MemberOkay, just a warning, they were drawing it before they turned 18, hence why there was a bit of controversy with Ink before.
RamboCreativity
MemberI tried to understand the controversy so I tried to see if there were any laws about minors depicting porn and I couldn't find any in the US or UK other than porn depicting minors, which is already well known to be illegal. So from my perspective it's just "people complain that person X is weird on the internet #247"
Since it didn't seem to be anything illegal I was dismissive, please correct me if I am wrong.
ShadowyObserver
MemberThe problem is, they had a discord while they were 16, drawing porn and sharing it with adults in their own server, some of which who were also lying about their own age. This continued even up to now.
Gusty
MemberHow long does one have to wait after their 18th birthday?
"You can't do this until you're 18, but you can't do it when you're 18" like come on.
Deathless
MemberYes, I believe so
The Seeker
BlockedLol this comment section went wild 🤣
b0ss 302
MemberI drew it before I turned 18.. *shrug.* 23 now, and no one's coming to try arrest me.
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