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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Mairo
JanitorI have to admit that I kinda hate these flags, because the reason doesn't appear to make much sense. The file is exactly the same as one on furaffinity and visually same as one on twitter. So at that point, how can it be "wrong file", usually when this is the reason the version is outdated, accidentally uploading private or crowdfunding only copies, etc. but I don't see any of that here.
I'm unflagging and approving on this basis. Also if you are the artist, takedown is the preferred method to begin with, can be utilized even after 48 hours of upload and there's zero determining factors like there are with flags.
XernTheSergal
MemberThey literally got so high their hallucinations of floating dicks impregnated them
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