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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Iago1
MemberThe smaller version was posted, because at least at the time mods at e621 were hunting and deleting automatic Patreon upscales, which I suspect this is another example of.
Nicklo6649
Former StaffCould be, though that would be a bit weird as the colored version Is the exact same resolution, and it’s been here for quite some time.
Iago1
MemberThe colored version came from DeviantArt, so it's definitely not an upscale.
I'm just concerned for another purge. I definitely won't have the energy to redo all that a second time, especially since digging up older Patreon posts is a huge pain.
Nicklo6649
Former StaffWell, only time will tell I guess. Let’s just hope it isn’t an upsalled version.
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