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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Riku
Memberwhy does this crap have so many upvotes
Edit: Apparently minimum quality standards isn't a thing on this site anymore
Updated
Freepublicaccount
MemberWhy do you have downs?
Riku
MemberBecause people got offended by my comment i guess?
Mairo
JanitorI wonder what "This post is pending approval." note on post means.
Riku
MemberIdk can you explain it to me please
Mairo
JanitorThere's link with (learn more) next to it, which explains that the whole process of post approvals is manual and before post is approved the post is subject to either deletion or approval. Queue can vary from seconds to 30 days depending on the amount of volunteers online and the amount of uploads, so this kind of stuff hanging for 3 days is not unusual.
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