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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High Botanist Telarn
BlockedThank god.
Hyunidae
MemberThere are perspective shots and there are ass shots, but then there are perspective ass shots and HOH BOY ♡
TheCopyUniverse
BlockedThank you, I'm not a big fan of corset piercings.
Shalala
MemberWhat was so bothersome about the corset piercings? I don't get it. It's a drawing of some abnormal piercings with no implicated pain on a site filled with guro, scat, and hard vore.
ScreechingSergal
MemberWhile I don't like any of the other things you mentioned, those piercings were just too much. It's just not a popular thing I guess.
Shalala
MemberI dunno man, people seem waaaay too sensitive over something so simple, but completely fine with something super outlandish. Furries I guess.
pewdiecrustlesspie
MemberI can speak for myself on that area.
It's that piercings in general give me anxiety regardless of the context. My brain just reflexively makes the connection between a piece of metal being hooked under your original skin and the possibility of it snagging on something and causing tearing (even when this isn't actually an issue in practice or even especially relevant to the (eg: depicted) situation. It is (for me) a disturbing distraction.)
Yeah I'm into all kinds of funny stuff, but gore (even the vague implication of it) isn't one of those things.
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