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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RaeHusky
BlockedThe name's Guarez because in spanish their species name is Lobo Guará / Aguará Guazú ?
JohnWulffe
MemberThis is a reasonably old character, and I don't remember the exact thought process behind the name. But that definitely had at least part in it, yes.
Fadinha do Toddy
MemberSmall correction. "Lobo Guará" is the portuguese name. The spanish name is "Aguará Guazú".
Curiously, the word Lobo translates to Wolf in portuguese, while the word Aguará means Fox in spanish. Also curiously, the maned wolf is neither a fox nor a wolf.
RaeHusky
BlockedMy bad, you're right. I don't know why I thought in Bolivia they were known as Lobo Guará. By the way, Fox in Spanish is Zorro. Aguará means Fox, too, but is part of the Guarani language.
the mistery z
MemberYup, the name in Brazil is 'Aguara Guazu' in the rest of latinamerica is "Lobo de crin"
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