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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Tinyphlosion
MemberTalk about a mindfuck...
elad
MemberI am not sure he's fine.
Vik Malaki
MemberR.i.p that dragon, but atleast he went out in style
muffler
Memberlol I wonder what it sounds like
Skyfifer
MemberI feel the death tag for the blacklist should auto block any tag with death in it. such as death by penis. not bashing the art, I just wonder why it doesn't auto block related tags.
yeoldenut
MemberTwo reasons why that wouldn't be a good idea:
There's a ton of tags that have "death" in them. [1] [2]
death_by penis and death_by_snu_snu don't always actually mean death
I'd just recommend blacklisting specific tags like death_by_penis or imminent_death if just the death tag doesn't work well enough
DeeJayDragon
MemberDoes the death tag really apply here? He's clearly breathing and making noises. He's not dead.
FoodLion42
MemberI feel like brain dead and real dead are pretty much the same thing. Either way, I'm blacklisting anything related to it.
lord sergal2
MemberYou're assuming this is permanent and he's not just cum drunk
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