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.
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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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Mantikor
MemberI only shame people who don't source.
Source on FA found with "Reverse SauceNAO Search" and "Reverse Kheina Search"
in the lower left corner of this web page
under the heading "Related"
YanPan
MemberKink shaming is my kink!
Mantikor
Member@uploader
You removed the sources on FA, was that intentional?
Lomah Volbur
MemberAs I thought I stated but the comment didn't post, Artist doesn't want the other sources there. She only wants her Twitter there where she's active most for the HQ pictures. Otherwise, I would have listed all posts. She hates FA but uses it for the few clients that are there.
Watsit
PrivilegedThe source links are for where the image can be publicly found. The image exists on FA, and anyone looking with saucenao or kheina will find it there, so it's a valid source. A source that just points to the artist's Twitter where the image can't be (easily) found doesn't really help source the image (Twitter is pretty terrible for art, given the lack of gallery features or easy image searching; along with it generally trashing image quality by recompressing jpgs and being hostile to pngs). If it's also on Twitter, please do add a link to the specific tweet with it. If the artist prefers people to go to her Twitter, that can be noted in their artist page here.
If she really doesn't want links to FA despite the images being publicly available there, she may have to get in touch with the admins to ask if there's anything they can do about that. But short of the admins saying otherwise, the source links are for valid sources, and it's against the rules to remove valid source links.
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