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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Chard
Memberis he making the awesomeface?
Bryantacious
MemberId never doink anyone that made that face in bed...
sauoce
MemberSome number and 14 Years ago, our founding father posted the first known use of the tag "Meme" ever documented in e621. Hallelujah.
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Sekriess
MemberActually that's potentially incorrect. Meme tag could have been removed from older posts, or this could have been added years after. This is just the earliest post that had it added and has retained it.
sauoce
MemberWhich is why it says "First known use," as we (I) don't currently know if there are earlier uses.
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