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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TheGreeb
MemberI'm actually curious as to if this will actually stay up
Edit: it did not 😬
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user 1691065
Memberit should, its cool
anicebee
MemberNon-sexual depictions of ferals are allowed on this site, and a redraw of the coat of arms got approved before.
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Trapixen
MemberSilly stuff
hamsterboy
MemberFor some reasons, I'm reminded of this nostalgic gem.
https://youtu.be/07JMv5M3wl0?t=3127
Arken-Wolf
MemberGenerally, posts that are approved before revisions or changes to policy changes on the site are grandfathered in. Just because there's a post from 5 years ago still available on the site does not guarantee this one will stay.
anicebee
Member2015 wasn't 5 years ago, I'm pretty sure it's allowed.
Xx EpikCoolGamr xX
MemberMURICUH
DownloadMirror
MemberWHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER????
TheGreeb
MemberYeah it was almost 10 years ago you right
Clawstripe
JanitorThere's no reason why it can't. It meets our uploading guidelines – good art, focus on a non-human, and it's not paysite. As an official governmental coat of arms, it's automatically and legally public domain from the get-go (at least as I, a non-lawyer, understand the law). If copyright does apply, it's because it's depicted as part of a work that is copyrightable, which this isn't.
This means Users could, hypothetically, upload most, if not all, animal-focused governmental coats of arms to e621 and, as long as the art itself was up to our standards, get away with it. (Mind you, that's how I interpret it. I could be wrong. Again, I'm not a lawyer.)
pleaseletmein
MemberNow this is truly spread eagle
TheGreeb
MemberApparently there is actually a reason why it can't, it's not relevant
Clawstripe
JanitorI guess the relevancy issue has more to do with it being a governmental logo than non-furriness or something similar, just as a corporate logo wouldn't be relevant. :/ Well, it was worth a try, at least.
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