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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LovelyAstral
MemberThat's so cool!
tubeku
Memberthis is very cool
dragonspinner11
Memberwell i guess i'm plusle and minun
CrabKingHunter
MemberAm I a...Baltoy?
Sweet.
lord-of-frost
Memberis it me or is the constellation between Sagittarius and Scorpio not suppose to be there
SnowWolf
Former StaffDepends on who you ask :) that's ophiuchus_(zodiac) ... if you click on that link I just made, you can read a bit of information about it, though western_zodiac holds a lot more information :) the 'short' version of it is that there are several ways of interpreting the stars, and some of them include Ophiuchus as a 13th member of the zodiac.
My birthday is actually at this perfect spot on the calendar that I'm either a Scorpio, a Sagittarius, or an Ophiuchus, depending on who you ask. ;)
fluffyfoxlove
Memberthe fact there is a Ophiuchus ruins it for me
SnowWolf
Former StaffHow come?
I mean, it's not a traditional astrology symbol, no, but some people like it.
I'll admit, I'm fond of it myself! I'm not a big astrology fan... but the description of Ophiuchus struck me as more 'me' than either Sagittarius or Scorpio :) I'm not planning my life around it or anything, but it did lead me to finding a love of snakes. :) As a result, it always makes me very happy whenever someone includes Ophiuchus in something like this...
I'm sorry that it ruins it for you...
fluffyfoxlove
Memberits ok, we cant all like the same things
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