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Feb 26th:A new bill in Arizona is making its way through the Senate that would force sites like e621 to implement mandatory age verification for all users—or face potential lawsuits. This system would require third-party vendors to verify every user’s age through a government database. Not only is this a massive violation of privacy, but it also introduces serious risks, including identity theft through phishing schemes and other malicious methods. Worse still, we would have no control over ensuring that user data is permanently deleted after verification.

Since e621 operates out of Arizona, this law would almost certainly impact us if it passes. If you want to help ensure that we can continue serving you without being forced to collect personal information, we urge you to contact Arizona’s senators and ask them to vote NO on this bill.

Please help spread the word about this issue and encourage others to take action.
Further information on the bill itself can be found at the Free Speech Coalition: https://action.freespeechcoalition.com/bill/arizona-hb-2112/

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  • Ambiguous_Gender

    Correction:
    Ignoring that we already know Angel Dust is a dude, the description of him as effeminate implies he is a man. So while there may be no visible genitalia or other features that make gender obvious, the text implies the character's gender, meaning it is not ambiguous.

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  • sideburns-mcgee said:
    Ambiguous_Gender

    Correction:
    Ignoring that we already know Angel Dust is a dude, the description of him as effeminate implies he is a man. So while there may be no visible genitalia or other features that make gender obvious, the text implies the character's gender, meaning it is not ambiguous.

    I dont like it either but its how it is over here, no clear genitals, ambigous it is :/

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  • nom621 said:
    I dont like it either but its how it is over here, no clear genitals, ambigous it is :/

    I think it goes to show what little sense e621's gender tagging system makes, sometimes. An image of a character everyone knows is a man being described with a word which by its definition states he's a man, but we can't use the male tag?

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  • sideburns-mcgee said:
    I think it goes to show what little sense e621's gender tagging system makes, sometimes. An image of a character everyone knows is a man being described with a word which by its definition states he's a man, but we can't use the male tag?

    It keeps things simple and makes it easier to properly tag things. I don't agree with everything e6 does, but the tagging system of 'tag what you see' was something I could always agree with. Besides, if we took text into consideration, it could raise complications. Lets say a male character states 'I am a woman', which tagging process would you use? The character is male, but the text implies otherwise. Or, say, another situation where you can't see the characters at all, but they describe themselves as a pregnant woman. Would you tag female and pregnancy, even though you can't see it at all?

    The tag what you see system allows you to see what you wanna see when searching tags, not what's described or implied.

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