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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tredfg543
MemberI may have been slightly hasty in flagging this as a duplicate. There are differences to the first post, but they are really minor. This appears to be a scan of an actual dead-tree illustration, as the entire image is shifted slightly relative to the first one. This image is what is currently up at the listed source, so I'm not sure where the first one came from.
Ruaidri
MemberDang, you guys really go over these with a fine tooth comb, eh? For the curious, I noticed after the initial upload that there were a few very tiny tweaks I wanted to make, so I did and reuploaded. Someone's real fast on the draw and snagged it before I made the update though, apparently!
thewildthing97
MemberI love this concept @.@ I want to see if she failed or not!
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