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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tiamat5
BlockedDoes are some dear deer doe
DeadSkull
MemberPlease doe-n't do that.
tiamat5
BlockedWhen it comes to humor some people here really have no I-deer. Ah well. I have learned not to give a buck anymore doe
Vissova
MemberI will hunt you down and ask you to stop.
tiamat5
BlockedHow deer you try to horn in on my puns
user 255104
Memberwhy did all of the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names????
BlueDingo
MemberYour skills are nothing to fawn over.
Aelvir
MemberLove how they can credit the artist by drawingstyle alone when it has no watermark while also neglecting to provide the source...
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