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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KangaCrow
Memberthat is a great backsack :D
GoneWithTheHind
MemberFurry art can make us wish for bodies that are impossible to have...
RetroWhat
MemberWhich ball should I play with the soccer ball or backsack?
Rocker20
MemberTo be honest, that's art in general. Look back at many of the Greek and Roman sculptures from thousands of years ago or renaissance paintings; you'll find much are heavily romanticized depictions of the human form, with men being lean and athletic, generally free of body hair, with muscular builds and fair features with little to no blemishes, while women were often drawn also lean with little to no body hair, stylized hair befitting the time depicted, hourglass figures, attractive breasts, and again very fair features. It's not all art of course, but men and women both have looked to romanticized figures as inspiration to improve their physical figures for thousands of years. I'm guilty of it myself.
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