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 Dopey Robot
MemberUh oh... politics.
Raven Reverie
MemberI mean I just think the pet lizard is cute
FuckThisShitI'mOut
MemberAnd here i am, blacklisting the "LGBT pride" tag...
VerySadFox
MemberMight do the same though I'll wait for it to become a really big pain in the ass otherwise I might miss some quality content that just has something LGBT related
vaevictus
Memberthe ratio good content/whiny political material is still pretty good imo, there are lots of nice pride pics. i wouldn't blacklist it yet
Kimsnep
MemberGood komodo dragon
Waskom Frost
MemberAgreed. I just hope it doesn't take the same turn that a few other tags have. Don't wanna have it become another politics tag.
FurryMcFuzzball
MemberHonestly there's plenty of good art that gets uploaded regularly, if you miss a few good pieces just to avoid some cringe, you wouldn't be missing a lot.
You could still peek into the tag every now and then to save good art and ignore the rest.
VerySadFox
MemberYes it's still too soon for that
I agree the whole pride thing was ok until it became a platform for silencing opinions by using gay or trans card like a shield: "If you disagree you are a [insert whatever]-phobe". It had a purpose at start for sure but like many other good things they eventually go to shit because of some extreme people or white knights that just look for a cause that can give them social points and attention even if they don't know shit about the cause or don't really care
Namity
MemberI love the lizard
Lasagna Kob
MemberWell in all honesty, I'd hope nobody gets eaten for their political opinions
Cuz that's kinda not right
Justwanttoask
MemberI eat pirozhok and caprese. You eat transphobes. Everything is ok.
user 423935
Memberunless you're into vore
but that's not my business
SCP-1471-A-69
MemberPlot twist: the transphobes are into vore
Queer Deer
MemberNot agreeing with trans peoples existence isn't fucking political, it's bigotry
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