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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IguanasAreCool
MemberAin't she lookin cute, well displayed.
SuperQuesadillaTurbo
Member*Sees art by photonoko again
Me: "Don't do that... Don't give me hope..."
Reian
MemberWhat happened to Photonoko? His twitter and FA accounts are both dead...
SuperQuesadillaTurbo
MemberLong story short, let's just say they didn't wanna deal with uh... unsavory members of the fandom anymore.
Reian
MemberAh. Makes sense.
Rook
MemberGiven they are one of my favourite artists I sort of want to know more, but I figure its gonna go the way it usually does. Hopefully they get out and are able to shake off whatever awful experiences made them want to leave.
Redwolf150
MemberPhotonoko has left 3 messages on what happened, one on his fa journal, one on his last upload (hugging one) and one on e621 on post ID: 1795850 put in shorts its that VV and other reasons
its a shame he left he was one of my favorite(if not the one),hope one day he will comeback to do public stuff
Devin Arts
MemberWait is this new or captured somewhere? Is Photo back?
Photonoko
MemberThis was a really old pic that was only uploaded to tumblr. I guess it survived he tumblr porn purge.
irb
MemberOh, hi there, Pho! Glad to see you're still around somewhere talking. I know about all that happened those months ago and how you won't post publicly anymore, but I still wanted to say that you're my favorite artist, easily. It was fun talking to you on Twitter and doing stuff on PS4 while it lasted. Still sorry that what happened with people had to happen. Hope you're doing alright nowadays :)
Devin Arts
MemberAh. Appreciate the response. Hope things are going well for you.
JackSavage
MemberSad that Photonoko deleted his art from furaffinity
But understandable. Tho I will still miss it
Reian
MemberI hear ya, he was near the top of my list of favorite artists. Gonna miss seeing his artwork.
zox
MemberWhat are you on about, his art is still there. He did do it at one point tho.
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