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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maderfaker
Memberi sometimes miss tacklebox
HIMofangels
MemberI knew this was a reference to another image, so I went to find it to tag it, but wasn't having any luck. Found it in my own stash, but all links I had for it were dead. Some basic googling brought me up to speed with everything that happened, leading to tacklebox deleting EVERYTHING they could. Quite effectively. Only places I can find them now are on image sites that don't allow any indexer to scrape them/don't follow DMCA takedowns anyways. All original sources are gone. Just in case anyone was wondering. You can still find the art from recent reposters by simply googling "tacklebox artist"
D0M0R3M
Memberwhat even happened to him? one day all his stuff was just gone
HardShirt
MemberFrom my understanding, he was accused of making cub art, which I guess is the furry equivalent of pedophilia.
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