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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BassGroove
MemberWho's the *real* winner here though?
That's right. The crowd.
user 340550
MemberDoes this really have to get tagged as "feet"? The feet clearly aren't the focus here. I was looking for the new Braeburned art and I was unchecking random things in my blacklist to find it.
Braeburned
Memberthat tag is accurate as long as they're in the picture; it might be more helpful for you to blacklist something like "foot focus"!
user 354924
MemberThat's because he didn't put up a fight.
user 340550
MemberAh, I had both "feet" and "foot_focus" blacklisted. I didn't realize that the appearance of feet in a picture meant it was getting tagged even though e621 is a tag what you see site. I don't know what I was thinking, my confusion got me downvoted to hell though.
ItReallyDoBeLikeThat
MemberWell, that fight was pretty..
R o u g h...
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