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Feb 26th:A new bill in Arizona is making its way through the Senate that would force sites like e621 to implement mandatory age verification for all users—or face potential lawsuits. This system would require third-party vendors to verify every user’s age through a government database. Not only is this a massive violation of privacy, but it also introduces serious risks, including identity theft through phishing schemes and other malicious methods. Worse still, we would have no control over ensuring that user data is permanently deleted after verification.

Since e621 operates out of Arizona, this law would almost certainly impact us if it passes. If you want to help ensure that we can continue serving you without being forced to collect personal information, we urge you to contact Arizona’s senators and ask them to vote NO on this bill.

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Further information on the bill itself can be found at the Free Speech Coalition: https://action.freespeechcoalition.com/bill/arizona-hb-2112/

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In response to blip #133420

decra said:
@savageorange: slightly unrelated but i wish darktable was an actually competent lightroom competitor instead of being complete fucking dogshit, in a similar vain to GIMP.

LOL. GIMP isn't trying to compete directly with Photoshop; darktable isn't trying to compete directly with LR (it only started as LR-inspired). This is a typical, and IMO beneficial, approach for mature OSS projects to take (after all, they rarely have the raw developer-hours that Adobe etc can invest into software). They're just trying to improve on how they do what they are already doing.

(OTOH Bruce Williams does seem to think that DT is better than LR at LR things, and unlike me, he has the hours in both LR and DT to justify that opinion)

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