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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a guy that lold
Memberwe need more snake subs who ask "please tread on me"
DirtyRatMatt
Memberno steppy on snek
YigFatherofserpents
MemberGod bless Merica
Questy
MemberSo I guess back walk massages are out of the question?
user 136705
MemberNot these days. We need to stop people from treading.
List22
MemberYou mean New England?
Natasha Rusev231
MemberDoes anyone got the Metallica Reference?
technopro
MemberWhat about IN you?
Krovi
Blockedonly if they ask
Wulmanto
MemberStep on this snek and I will step on your knees.
Drakkenfyre
MemberYou know when someone thinks something's a reference when in actuality the thing they're thinking of is itself a reference to something older?
Yeah.
Feckin ded m8
Member*sigh* it's not a Metallica reference. it's the Gadsden flag. "Don't tread on me" is from the Gadsden flag. and it is a very important thing to remember for the U.S. "Don't tread on me" means "don't try to take away my rights". the rattlesnake is symbolizing our 2nd amendment and how the citizens can overthrow the government when it becomes tyrannical. Because if you step on a rattlesnake, you're gonna get bit.
Healthcat
MemberAlot of people take the gadsen flag and use it for their own purposes too which is a disgrace to the original meaning, it has no political orientation except for obviously telling people to fuck off and not take our rights away
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