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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TwilightStormshi
Memberafter seeing your advertisement and finding out you withhold content from non-patrons? no.
dartmoul12
Memberfinaly some more dinotopia but we need a dinotopian guard porn
Shawte
MemberYou must be one of those people who think artists should just GIVE you everything you want right?
Daneasaur
MemberYou're disturbingly new here and don't even know who you're talking to.
I feel I'd be wasting a lot of time trying to explain what you're not understanding here.
HerpyDragon
MemberOkay imagine you do something you like, but commercially, sometimes it deviates from things you love, sometimes you need to force yourself and cry blood over it, but its your job now and the years youve spent doing it have refined your skills so you are able to do it better than most, now imagine some dickbag one day tries to shit on your work by voicing his retarded opinion that your work doesn't even deserve to be paid for, not even a lot just around 3-10$ per month, so you can deduce from that either appearantly all these years have been for nothing and your stuff is shit, or the person is just that much of a nitwit that you cant help yourself and be confused and angry how such a fucking idiot even managed to scrounge up brain cells to write up a reply. Also they only withhold alternatives because YOU have to give people some sort of advantage for being a patreon.
Dragonlayer
MemberSadly I find that a lot of artists on patreon do this.
Genjar
Former StaffNot quite the same. Most artists actually publish content on Patron, whereas this one is strictly previews. Subscribers get links to download the finished works on month-to-month basis and there doesn't seems to be any way to get the old content.
For instance, those five images mentioned in the description? Doesn't look like you can get the other four anymore, if you weren't already subscribed.
Klohans
MemberI love it, ill even throw in some money for this!
TwilightStormshi
Memberartists who are likable can afford to be ethical, as the positive majority opinion will always outweigh any influence from the dickbags.
Michael94
MemberI never pay for porn. That's why I'm on e621, and not some furry pay site.
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