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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No-one-you-know
MemberThose piercings look painful
SpaminDaChat
MemberI was gonna write something similar
AntarcticWolf
MemberAs was I, but didn't because I thought it would be downvoted. It's still a good image though.
AntarcticWolf
MemberAnd wouldn't you know it, I'm reading through my old comments, only to discover that it's got a downvote, while currently the two comments above mine both have 4 upvotes. Some folks just can't win. Welp, I guess that's just the way the cookie crumbles.
(I'm so bored I'm reading through my old comments. Yep. Idk what else to write. The more I type, the more awkward this comment gets. I could have just clicked "Submit" already, but no. Why no? I don't know. That's just not what I did. I could still backspace this whole paragraph, and save the awkwardness, but no. I guess I'll leave this here for slight comedic effect. It's not even that funny, but whatever. Also, what's the deal with people saying you can't start a sentence with "and" or "but". We do it all the time in speech, so why not text?)
FluffyLapa
Membera human dick, WITH A KNOT!?!?
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