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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MemberThis pic led me into the fandom. God bless you, Doug Winger. :3
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MemberI love Doug's squirrel girls.
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Membershe gives you sqAIDS D:
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MemberIts a squirrel with boobs. What moar do you want??
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BlockedI'm on a mission to reach 10,000 e621 posts IN ORDER and I make an update every power of two post I get to.
124 was the first rape post, 114 was the first dinosaur post and 52 was the first adolescent post.
most of the early-day posts are safe and sometimes no color line art posts.
See you on post 256!
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