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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M44
MemberI think most of the members here are born in 1990.
Fox2K9
MemberOnly Amiga makes it possible.
Timballisto
MemberPersonally I've got fond memories of Amy the squirrel from Sabrina Online. I happen to be one of those rare members who was born in the 1970s!
Redfern
MemberI was already 28 by then. Learned about Schwartz, Ken Coug'r and Terrie Smith about 2 or 3 years later when somebody at Dragon*Con showed me a stack of their illustrations. "You mean there are other people drawing exotically attractive 'funny animals' and they have a fan following? There's even a name for the concept? Looks like I've been living a secluded life."
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