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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gingaman
Membersexy hot girl rubing herself in bed hot guys!!
ippiki ookami
Former StaffI see neither a bed nor hot guys.
white
Memberwow that watermark is a bit too much lol
NEO-Symphony
MemberThat's what people consider an annoying watermark?
wow, it's hardly even obscuring anything.
GreyMaria
BlockedDat face.
user 7538
MemberThat's furries for you.
CamKitty
MemberPutting the watermark in the middle is an annoying water mark. Full stop.
EightyNine
MemberI have four points in Perception and I didn't notice it until it was ravenously pointed out.
I think people just bitch about it, kneejerk-like.
toliet trees
MemberOh the irony.
Maybe if their art wasn't reposted all over the Internet (here being a great example), they wouldn't need to put a watermark in the center to tell people who the original artist was. Food for thought.
user 9583
MemberI didn't even notice the watermark at first.
Chibi Tiger
MemberWhat is this watermark that you people speak of? This is a digital picture. How could it have water spilled on it.
GreyMaria
BlockedSeriously, that face looks seriously deformed.
Rook
MemberNor did I. As far as watermarks go its really not that bad.
chopperman
MemberMy second favorite Raichu pic
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