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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user 340550
MemberI've said it before and gotten downvoted for it
The infamous cursed Pokemon pants
LizzyBlair
MemberSeems folks like it this time around. 26 upvotes and counting
Niko Mercer
BlockedThey are born with it, like spongebob was borne with his shoes tied...
Niko Mercer
Blockedcue boys in thongs make me weak... -w-
Niko Mercer
Blockedhmm... you know what I just thought about? the "fur" tag. like... does this website really need a tag for fur? XD is it even any helpful at all?
my-stuff-account
MemberYes, it is. Have you heard of scalie? That's why we also have a fur tag on a furry site. And sometimes people post stuff that's not furry at all, and you might wanna filter it out with - you guessed it - the fur tag.
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