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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Listlard96
MemberHot Tiger Lady
Fox Trash
Membercute!
Mizuty
MemberHey, it's not good to paint over my artwork without asking. The owner of the character pictured on the original drawing wouldn't be happy with it too. Please don't do it, it wasn't a base to paint over :)
Original artwork here: https://e621.net/posts/2800279?q=mizuty
Mairo
JanitorI mean it's technically not a trace, but someone definitely went an extra mile on doing a recolor edit of your work.
Just as general PSA, if someone does alter your work, it's still your work initially and you can utilize the sites takedown to get it deleted for any reason, same with all other artists and takedown doesn't require having account here either.
Thing is that even though we don't accept traces, we accept edits, so with this kind of stuff we need to weight the value of the edit compared to original work, instead of straight up deleting it as trace, uploading_guidelines#quality.
Versperus
Moderatorif not known, the button for the takedowns is at the bottom of every page.
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