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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tredfg543
MemberAnd now I'm conflicted. Is it worth requesting an alias for nameless_(arbuzbudesh) -> noemie_(arbuzbudesh)?
Strictly from a correctness perspective, that'd be appropriate. But it would also be a spoiler for several hundred pages of comic.
Noveltwin
MemberIs there a way for the tag to have both names?
tredfg543
MemberI'm not super familiar with the system. I think the new name replaces the old name, but if someone searches on the old name it will transparently redirect to the new name. So the pages would show noemie, but anyone searching for nameless would still find these pages.
WeRideAtDawn
MemberNew name replaces old, yeah. If someone decides to search “nameless_(arbuzbudesh)”, then it’ll change the results to “noemie_(arbuzbudesh)”.
While it would be appropriate, I personally would hold off on it until later since it’s a recent spoiler as of now.
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