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
MemberDidn't know you can copy paste an SCP, give it blue eyes and claim it as your own.
Skulldog Simp
Memberdidn't know that it matters since some people just want to have a version of a popular character that they can happily have the full rights to and do as they wish with it without having to deal with other's saying otherwise whilst still having it be similar to that character they love
just hush and enjoy it, originality doesn't mean anything.
CaptainCandyass
MemberCalm down keyboard crusader, we understand you have a similar lack in creativity.
0verlord2328
MemberHe has a point
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