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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SexyGriffon
MemberLegitimate question: Did the Japanese government crack down on porn artists recently or something? I feel like just over the past 30 days, there has been a sharp rise in "unappealing block mosaic censor" when most artists from Japan have typically just gone with the tiny black bars or the scribbles.
seadragonusgiganticu
Memberno. please subscribe to FAN BOX for uncensored ver
Omniwolf
BlockedHow about... No.
JohnnyIsParaplegic
MemberI think he's just explaining what happened, japanese artists are censoring art with mosaic censor over black bars so people subscribe to their FANBOX on pixiv.
SexyGriffon
MemberWell, if my limited understanding of Japanese censorship law is correct, wouldn't that mean they'd still have to censor it on their FANBOX? Are people paying to upgrade from mosaic censor to ineffective black bar censor?
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