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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Aramis-Savra
MemberWhy is this tagged crisscrossing? Clair is female.
Imuthes
MemberEven without knowing the character, that's unambiguously the figure of a professional female athlete. Unsurprisingly, though, the tags are locked to male - I'm legitimately beginning to think someone has a fetish for misrepresented genders.
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Especially since ^that gets locked to female despite the breasts being literally balloons under a bikini. I don't even understand anymore.
BlueDingo
MemberSomeone does, but he hasn't touch this one yet.
Narji
MemberIt generally is because of -people- who use the "Tag what you see" as an excuse to tag things they aren't.
Like with this image, I see two female characters.
But someone else might see one female, and one male, since one of them doesn't have big breasts.
And since we can't "Tag what we know" (Even if that rule is broken nearly all the time to be honest. As we have to use some outside sources from images, to tag them properly.) a lot of images can be misstagged or have wrong tags on them, till either a janitor, admin, or mod, fixes it.
However, they like any other, sees things their own way.
WanderingWisp
MemberI honestly think the "Tag what you see" rule is pretty ridiculous, as it can be very misleading and often incredibly inconsistent. People will expect one thing, only to find it's another when they check the source. For example, Reggie (Whygena's fem-boy mouse) is often tagged as female because of his girly disposition, only being tagged male when his dick is shown. I understand the Admins want to keep the tagging system from being abused, but I don't think TWYS is helping that case...
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