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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Poonington
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Otters In Guitars
MemberI'll never understand japanese censoring, why are the gaping cum-puking assholes okay but the spread creampied vaginas not?
Starlight~
MemberWe must protect the children from seeing anything deplorable!
Noovetom
MemberCurrently, some politicians are working to eliminate censorship, but it will take time to realize.
Otters In Guitars
MemberOh that's nice! But my question was more, why aren't the gaping assholes and gaping pussies censored equally? They're pretty much the same no? Two fleshy holes someone just splooged in and now on display drooling and leaking.
Noovetom
MemberAccording to pixiv's rules, the butt is only censored at the time of insertion.
Censorship is not unified by law, and each site has different rules
Horsemonger
MemberAfter WW2, the USA christian admiralty forced the censorship laws on Japan.
AvengerDrone
MemberIt seems to date back to the Empire, though it was upheld by the post-war government. Article 175 of the 1907 Criminal Code basically comes down to "Sale, distribution or display of obscene drawings can be punishable with up to 2 years in prison or a 2.5 million yen fine".
Because it's so old and archaic, artists have a bit of leeway in how they censor - usually with some small bars over part of the dick and stuff, or the entirety of the tentacle porn genre. Unfortunately, it's not toothless, though - people are still charged with obscenity, and there's always a bit of a concern of a crackdown. Not to mention, I'm not sure if there's anyone in the government who gives enough of a shit to risk their career on changing the laws.
In short, the Japanese legal system and porn industries are fucking weird.
Otters In Guitars
MemberThank you for the info! So basically Japan has the most obscene porn of all AND simultaneously the strictest laws AGAINST obscene porn? Oh man
user 802449
MemberWe gotta get Bonbon in these
pinkponkification
Memberi mean, if you look at every other time governments banned shit, it usually lead to more hardcore shit, think prohibition in the '20s and '30s
Austin117
MemberWhy does the vulgarity turn me on 😳
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