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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Omniscient
MemberSucks seeing the main links be stuff like bsky, don't like the websites like that requiring 'invites' from other people and limiting it. Will never take off. Can't even see the content unless you're signed up.
Privvy
MemberOriginally I had these up on twitter but twitter didn't like that.
bsky is just alternate hosting for now, it does suck that it requires a sign up but I think thats getting rolled back and everyone can view posts soon.
CapsTheWolf
MemberYeah, it's only on invites because it's still in beta. It'll open to all.
Qedono
Membereven if that promise does come true, it will solve nothing.
its just another closed source site, entirely moderated by paid employees, and under a stock company whose leadership and goals might change on the whim.
just like tumblr, just like twitter, just like any other such social media site; it will get celebrated at first, and slowly erode in quality over the decades, as people find it had to switch, not because there arent any good alternatives, but because none of their mutuals use it.
Riffrabb
MemberWow, mouse lady's so rude, for no reason.
Fox lady deserves better.
Nemmysura
MemberIf by "better" you mean "repeatedly spike powerbombed onto broken glass" then I agree.
Privvy
MemberGonna frame both these comments.
Omniscient
MemberI think if anything is in 'beta' for more than 3-6 months it's not in beta.
Tsavi Telta
MemberReally been enjoying this series privvy, cant wait to see what happens :3
EpicFurryWolf
MemberI’m absolutely on board with the bluesky slander lmao
I just don’t want to have to sign up for ANOTHER social media platform. Have you considered opening a telegram channel? 👀
Ragnars rock
MemberI love that exchangr more than my firstborn child
FurViewingAccount
Member“...pour hot iron into you from both ends.”
I bet some people would like to see that.
Not me of course. I wouldn’t like to see that certainly no I wouldn’t want that I wouldn’t like that. Not me no siree not at all not one bit. I wouldn’t want to see that not in the slightest not even a little bit. Nope. Not in a hundred years not in my lifetime I wouldn’t want to see that ever not even once just out of curiosity. Not even then would I want to see it because I don’t want to see it no I do not.
But some people would...
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