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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SteelWings
MemberR.I.P
Rocketeer-Raccoon
MemberYeah, R.I.P Sally, Bunnie, Antoine, Rotor, Uncle Chuck, Mina, Julie-Su, Hershey, Geoffrey, Drago Wolf, Locke, Lara-Su and Fiona Fox. The only one I'm not going to miss is Scourge, I'm honestly glad that he's gone.
Mighty Azrael
MemberAnd dear Cosmo. I miss her.
AlexTalbain
MemberIve never heard of most of these people
Varker
MemberWhat? what happened? comic ended? reboot? and where's wave?
Servalion
MemberWell, yeah, the Archie Sonic comic ended all of a sudden, it's done. Granted, most of these characters were long gone already, thanks to the Penderspocalypse. IDW is starting up a new Sonic comic next year, but I think we'd be lucky to see even a third of these characters return because Sega hates the Archie character base and is pretty good at ruining a good thing.
Kylen
MemberWait, isn't Sonia and Manik from the Sonic Underground tv show? They made them canon to the Archie comics? That's pretty ballin.
Googlipod
PrivilegedI think they ended up as Sonic's and Sally's daughter and son. Although their appearance is completely different. More of a "in-name only" adaptation.
ZakiVastall
MemberBoth versions were included in the Complete Sonic The Comic Encyclopedia (Pre-Penderspocalypse) so they are considered a part of the Archie canon.
SlamWeasel
MemberWhy did you make Brenda the Hedgehog and Anita blue? They are canonically in the colored version yellow/orange
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