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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GlimGlam
MemberWe need to find every post with a character saying something along the lines of "Have you ever fucked a horse?" and add a tag for it. I mean, there's got to be at least 10. Just for shits and giggles
thebronyvamp
MemberOn the bucket list. Want to help me cross it off?
GlimGlam
MemberMaybe later after I'm done posting stuff for today. If you really want to that is. I'm not sure how to go about doing it tho
Pc Genie
MemberHa ha haa... Oh dear.
I can't believe I learnt this, but apparently in UK law bestiality is legal so long as the creature isn't distressed. Apparently.
Aerobatic
Blockeduh apparently making a joke like that can get a person permabanned. I just found out so you should maybe hide/delete your response
james31
BlockedCountless times.Why you ask?
ConsciousDonkey
MemberGuys, be careful what you say under pics like these. The e621 admins invented a new rule that everyone who admits to a crime (including bestiality) is automatically permabanned with no warning. They even retroactively banned people who wrote such comments 3 or more years ago! And e621 is riddled with assholes who will be more than happy to report you, just to see someone banned.
https://e621.net/user_record?user=&reporter=&body=Blocked%3A+See+records&type=any&order=date
EvilScotsman12
MemberSo, is this like a trap picture or something?
ponywayne
Memberok i will not say anything than it a trape than
ggdk
MemberLet us all remember the dearly permabanned DH and Pasiphäe for they have admitted in the face of Mod to inter-species relationships.
Aaaaameeeeeeeeeen!
ConsciousDonkey
MemberTrue, but those two were banned before that new rule even came into effect 5 months ago.
Noveltwin
MemberDoes the rule mean crimes in the nation this site is registered in? Cause there are a lot of places in the world that dont have written laws on bestiality. My US state didnt even have one until some years ago when a guy died from being impaled by a horse.
ConsciousDonkey
MemberThe admins permabanned at least 15 people for bestiality so far, so probably yes.
ggdk
MemberHarbingers of Doom... DOOOOOOOM!
Aaah - welcome to the E621nistan: And Mod sayeth onto thee: if a man or woman lays with a beast and brags about it openly, for sure thou shalt permabanneth their accounts
keltza
MemberIt's legal in Texas.
user 59725
MemberIt's always been a rule. They probably decided to start cracking down on it much more recently, probably in response to something.
That being said, good to know I have even less reason to feel welcome here now.
ConsciousDonkey
MemberBut... you had been an admin here. Surely you wouldn't become one unless you had been on very good terms with the rest of the staff. You had a falling out with them or something?
Anyway, I even started a thread about why they started with the instant permabans, but there was no clear answer. See forum #252900 if you're interested.
user 59725
MemberIt's complicated and I'd rather not go into it, especially here. I'm just bitter is all.
That's pretty much what I thought though.
NotMeNotYou
AdminWe don't ban people for jokes. There is a difference between jokes and straight up stating someone fucked their pet dog.
As long as it's clear something is a joke be respectful to others but go nuts. But if you state you had sexual relations with your animals we'll ban you because that's illegal where the server is hosted.
Also, every single one of our rules is "invented", that's how writing rules works. We can't just copy scientific laws in there and hope people will know that they should treat each other respectfully.
SnowWolf
Former StaffAlso, that rule's been around pretty much as long as the site has. If you search for bestiality in the records rather than "blocked:see records" you'll see a lot more results.
ConsciousDonkey
MemberI knew that. But I was simply baffled by the retroactive permabans. I mean seriously, what will come next? You will retroactively permaban everyone who has ever posted paid/DNP content, even unknowingly? Because technically it's like spreading warez, which is a crime, too.
SnowWolf
Former StaffYou might have known that, but your original post made it sound like we made up this rule recently and have been combing through old comments to find people who violated the rules before the rule existed. And that's pretty misleading.
What you're talking about is people who's initial records--some several years ago-- were "extended' into permanent bans.
For that, I don't actually have an explanation, honestly. I don't know. I'm sure that there *is* a good reason though.
SnowWolf
Former StaffOh, one other note: It might have sounded misleading, but I'm not accusing you of trying to be misleading--it's very easy to say one thing and mean another--it happens about once or twice a day here in my house :) It's not malicious, just something between your brain and my brain not connecting on the same level, and that's okay <3
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