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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chemi
Memberthis is oddly very adorable, well done!
Tol'kaed
MemberThat's a lot of words. I feel like there's at least a small amount of story i'm not getting the context of.
hanzai
MemberI just finished translating this and I refresh to see someone else put notes for it. I'd feel rude just throwing it out and putting my own up but I'll definitely touch them up, especially with regard to accuracy.
Zachrai
MemberThanks for the translation! I suspected I might have missed some details, but I wouldn't have thought of being that far off. I'll study the mistakes carefully for my learning. 😄 Thanks again!
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