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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cube1
MemberWould this really be “questionable”? I’ve seen a lot less ‘questionable’ and have those pics still being tagged explicit, and uh, this is quite clear on what’s going on :p
AnOwOtterNPC
MemberAgreed with u, but you know how this kind of sites are with those rules
Marrshh
Memberwho's child is this, come collect them
Donovan DMC
ModeratorThere's incorrect ratings everywhere. This should have been, and was changed to explicit for multiple reasons.
1.) cum, which is always explicit
2.) a detailed_bulge/penis_outline, yet again always explicit
3.) Obvious sexual actions, which are almost always explicit
If you see things like this, you can change it - we won't get that mad at you unless you're blatantly going against Help: Ratings, you can ask around if you're unsure about something
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