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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ShadowBlitz1996
Membernothing like spicing up the work day lol
Tines
Member...there's so much to unpack here I don't even know where to start
Dellnob
MemberGiraffe boys are very cute and underrated
ABathtubFullOfOtters
MemberAll that salt and no fries, the hell were you thinking?
Shell Snake
MemberOrange guy knows, and he doesn't seem to mind~
Nate 98
MemberYou must be old if you haven't heard of phones or computers yet, both of which allow you to zoom and scale at will. That said I don't hold out much hope for a guy who apparently still hasn't discovered glasses.
Stay mad you geezer.
DirtyRatMatt
MemberWhat
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