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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Neitsuke
MemberI really have nothing against people editing/coloring other artist's pictures, but when done unofficially, I don't feel that adding a watermark on top of the picture is something respectful to be doing on original artist, almost to be claiming the whole picture as yours
Slenderneko
MemberBut it includes the information of the original artist, they are not claiming they did it, just the color... this is way more respectful than people just re-uploading art without mentioning the artist on social media.
Neitsuke
MemberThe text linked to his Tumblr, eh, I'm neutral about it. That's not what I am taking about but the actual watermark on the top left corner that doesn't give any info at all and is just there as a brand sticker as if he's now claiming the picture
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