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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chdgs
PrivilegedThe artist will distribute uncensored works via private messaging on DeviantArt.
However, that's arguably not a public posting, so unfortunately e621 gets the compressed Twitter version (for now?).
Which is quite a shame, as the censored DeviantArt version is a higher-resolution PNG.
Talwu
Memberwould it help if it could be a composite of lower-res uncensored image over the high-res image? It would be partly up-scaled however...
Omniwolf
BlockedReally? Private message through DA? What an asshole.
jonnyawsom3
Membereveryone has their reasons, even if for some people i really don't see the point in it...
Shon2
MemberCare to elaborate why you think that's so bad? I have an image to maintain for potential employers and school, however I wanted to provide what I could to customers and fans that are interested in NSFW. It was honestly the best option, in my opinion.
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