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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vex714
PrivilegedI’ll take my coffee extra strong-armed to the face.
neepokra
Memberphoenix wright, where assault is perfectly legal if it's towards a defense attorney
Bongani
MemberDefence attorneys are the butt-monkeys of a criminal system where conviction is all but certain due to the cultural pressure towards confessing.
Max Jackal
MemberWut...
NickelTheWise
Memberokay, OW.
Malikfoxen
MemberBesides the fact that you might be right potentially... Why make this statement here?
Bongani
MemberBecause Ace Attorney is a critique of that criminal system.
user 296313
MemberI dunno how to tell you this, but this isn't Detroit Become Human.
I highly doubt that the Ace Attorney devs were making this game to try and make some deep hidden political statement.
Bongani
MemberGiven the plot's tenour in regards to innocent people confessing to crimes they didn't commit, even if it wasn't their intent they've made a statement about the state of the Japanese legal system and to argue otherwise is disingenuous.
zorauru
Memberno politic opinions on the furry site please
Bongani
Memberpolitical_cartoon is a tag.
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