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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HaroChronos
Member???
post #2409639
Mairo
JanitorExtremely hard to say what's the actual case here. However to me at least it seems like the pose is what's exact match, not any of the linework.
Theashrael
MemberI indeed used it as heavy reference, if that's prohibited I won't do it again
RaiderTits
Member"I KNOW THAT ASS!" In action
Mairo
JanitorNah, nothing wrong with that. Just that we have chosen here to not host traced content, so we are kinda evaluating that and users are encouraged to point it out by flagging the posts like that.
Biggest problem arising from this is that if the reference is way too much on spot that people start to harrass over the fact. I think there has been at least one case where artist has nuked their work as they didn't want to deal with the accusations. Just remember that if that starts happening here you can always report users or ask admins to clarify the situation in the comments.
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