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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user 35468
MemberThis makes me irrationally angry!
Mad Dok
MemberI thought that was just shading to help pronounce his muzzle.
Epantsimator
MemberMy anger, on the other hand, is meticulously calculated.
CrazyT
MemberMeticulously calculated anger is just annoyance.
While I'm monstrously enraged!
Joeykill
BlockedI am very in rage right now for people that do stuff like this to others and now I have a feeling that it might happen to those who are struggling with there work during this epidemic
Snowling
MemberTime to curb stomp Roderick.
TheDarkened
MemberNo. It's rational.
Shinigamiraptor
MemberSad thing is, it wouldn't change a damn thing. It's not just an individual. It's that the whole system has made that okay. It's that the majority of people are taught that the "other" isn't even a person. That doing that is okay...
BleachingMaEyes
MemberI think bro should sign up to be a broken hero villain with that speech.
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