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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CoupDeGrace
MemberThis could have been amazing.
Rayneallen
MemberWould love a longer more knotty version
AlbannachMara
MemberPart two when?
VizenFox
MemberHonestly, I can see why you got downvoted to oblivion. That shit's messed up
ForThePlot
MemberOh I agree completely.
The problem is that YouTube management really doesn't give a shit. As long as it's an effective bait for the ultimate purpose of delivering ads to eyeballs, YouTube will promote it. Doesn't matter if it's auto-generated text-to-speech fake news, mass-produced creepy-as-fuck "BABY SHARK CARTOON SONG FOR KIDS NURSERY RHYMES HEALTHY HABITS MANNERS COCOMELON LEARN COLORS SHAPES FUN TOY UNBOXING CHUCHUTV"[1], or the now-infamous subgenre of Spiderman-Elsa softcore. As long as parents are irresponsible enough to leave their kid with an iPad on autoplay with no ad blocker, they'll use whatever they can, as long as the fully-automated, no-human-interaction-required systems think it's family-friendly.
So yeah, my comment was pretty dark and fucked up, and probably deserves every downvote, but hopefully, this explains what I was trying to get at.
The point wasn't to suggest that we should traumatize children for some sick, twisted, sadistic laughs or something; it was to demonstrate that YouTube has no responsible human moderation anymore, especially with family content.
[1] UPDATE: At least there's one upside of the whole FTC v. YouTube settlement, and that's that this shit will be significantly less profitable.
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MidnaLover2006
MemberYour profile picture hurts me, AlbannachMara.
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