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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TexP88
MemberOkay, Im confused. Why is this NOW on e621? I love the comic, but why is it now here when other places already have it posted?
ghurdhyll
Memberbecause other sites post it before it is publicly released via patreon i'd guess.
Im here to meme
Memberartists get full custody of their work. its kinda a heckarooni because artists make stuff and give it to a large audience and out of those 10 people 1 gives it to a site and uploads it and it gets shared meaning the artist loses money, which is why artists watermarked stuff in the early 00s and now cause image sharing is way more frequent now they do far more obnoxious watermarks because of these half-pirates uploading paid art to free upload sites like e621. people dont like spending money on art but its a catch 22 because people see the watermark and remember the artist so they pay them. but at the same time the opposite spectrum give them no money because all their art is unconsentually uploaded to e621 or other sites so they dont HAVE to pay for it. kinda like stealing cable in america
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