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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CaptainCandyass
MemberI don't understand what prompted this, but I understand the downvotes even less.
Tempura
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Zeifyl
MemberThe only guess that I have is that people feel like they're missing a reference?
Daleport996
MemberProbably should've mentioned that this was requested by someone on dA. Oh, well.
RaithyPaints
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Node1
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Alunita~
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thisguyisunfunny
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Ferals-R-Us
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Kazuli
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Certain dergen
MemberI’m not into this, I don’t judge anyone who is. But I would honestly like to talk to someone who is into this and ask them “why?” I’m curious to know what leads them to it, just like how people want to ask “why do furries exist?” And “why do people purposely watch bad movies?”
Daleport996
MemberYou can ask me, but honestly I don't think even I can give a definitive answer.
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