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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TwistedKitten
MemberDid the best I could with tags. Little confused on how to tag sex - the character is male, but for all intents and purposes appears female in the image. Is "ambiguous gender" appropriate to use here?
IguanasAreCool
MemberBeautiful kitty cat budonkadonk.
I'm13YearsOld
Blocked"Let's tag this male character female/ambiguous because fuck logic."
Honestly when it comes to tagging and tags in general this site if a fucking shitshow. People tag genders of well know characters wrong because "tag what you see" instead of tag what you know which should be used for well known characters. And then you have 20 fucking different tags for the same exact thing. Just look how many pointless cum related tags there are. Kinda wish someone would step up and overhaul this mess.
TwistedKitten
MemberI agree, I definitely wanted to tag him male but I've seen some pretty vicious arguments about it in the years I've been here, so I thought I'd play it "safe". I think the cum tags are alright though, if only because facials get tiring after seeing the 30,000th one.
I'm13YearsOld
BlockedI am okay with specific tags, but some categories just have way too many of them. And you know what's the biggest issue of them all? Half the posts that should have them, don't have them. Probably because the people who are tagging them don't know these tags exist.
IMO there are just a bit too many specific/useless tags like perineum and some have too many variations. It just makes the whole process of tagging AND finding posts a bit of a mess.
TwistedKitten
MemberLol decided to check up on this post after a week and saw a nice little tag war, and no answer to my question. I'll reiterate here: regardless of the tags - and I'm not disputing the correct tags here, not with this comment anyway - the character is male. Only throwing this out there because having my own character tagged as female feels wrong to me. But it's not my website, rules are rules, and it is what it is.
ScreechingSergal
MemberThank you for telling the truth. I hate when people ignore a character's facts just because they want to follow a terrible rule.
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