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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Sukisummer
MemberI think the chance of that is high ;-;
KynikossDragonn
Memberpost #1028937
evilfudge
MemberSilly protegens, you can't run away from windows update. Unless you're in a Faraday cage.
TsukiyomaruZero
MemberOr if you alter Group Policy so windows HAS to be allowed to download and/or install updates, regardless of how important they are.
BDG
MemberStuff like this makes me want to create a Protogen OC. Those fuzzy cyborgs are just too adorable :'3
Rando Rock
MemberProtogens running linux says "bonjour"
coolycool909
MemberMovie idea: Protogen goes about their daily life, ignoring the update notification. Finally, they give in. "Ugh... Alright, just a quick little update..." They say before shutting down for the update...
Only to wake up into a far, post-apocalyptic future!
ProtoUncreative
MemberREJECT WINDOWS
EMBRACE LINUX
Updated
ProtoUncreative
MemberTwo words
DO. IT.
RedEyedRaptor12
Memberprotogens are too limoted... go for synth species form vadersan, much more open to do
Carima your gal
MemberOr just run on windows vista like me, that way there isn’t any updates
Usagiki
MemberOr just make your own cybernetic species. Doesn't have to be protogen or synth. Better yet, just take your own character you have, if you have one, and cyborg them!
ProtoUncreative
MemberIf you want fuzzy cyborgs, Go for protogen.
If you want scalie cyborgs, Go for synth.
:3
Or.. Dat.
MilesFarber
MemberAm i seriously the only person in the entire planet that knows how to press the pause updates button?
Please for the love of god don't do that, windows updates need to be installed after 30 days for a reason. Braindead tech illiterate people not updating for months is exactly how Wannacry happened. You can't keep blaming microsoft for all of your own problems.
AllanBG
MemberI saw a video of someone downloading and activating Windows XP on a computer this year, at least it won't get updates anymore.
Ronniedaprotogen
MemberBut you have to pay to use it they are closed
BananFisk
MemberThis gave me a flashback to the "gardener in the dark" storyline from FreeFall (links below), where the robot people society therein is threatened by a program that practically lobotomises the robots to make them safer to have around humans
Worth reading, but a warning in advance:
to understand what's going on, you'll need to read ~1600 Garfield-size comics before it becomes the subject,
and the chapter takes ~1000 Garfield-size comics before reaching a conclusion
and the comic is still going to this day, leading to a collection of 3500+ strips
FreeFall links:
front page with latest page (spoilers!)
first page
endless scrolling version (starts on first comic and shows all comics until you reach the newest one)
And i LOVE the 90ies webdesign that loads in 0.5 seconds
Kopipies35
MemberMy Windows 10 is update or update later, never saw a pause button.
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