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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AmbyGirl17
MemberYes I am, gotta save that flavor
bitWolfy
Former Staff... why do people keep spreading conspiracy theories about us using bots for this sort of thing?
Bigbulgebear
MemberI never said it was a conspiracy also I was just pissed at that so that was a comment I was supposed to remove. I don’t disrespect but I also have no idea how AutoModerator works. :/
bitWolfy
Former StaffWe don't do automated bans. Ever. I have no idea why people think we do.
So there isn't some combination of words that will "trigger the bot" – most records come from reports made by users that are then reviewed by a staff member.
OrssoPanda
MemberSome people just don’t understand how running a website works.
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