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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ArtSkunk EsmeBelles
MemberThis post was flagged for deletion by nyaachu. Reason: yeah, this should be obvious.
uuuuh. its not.
JoeX
MemberOh, my God, that is such a stupid FFD.
CamKitty
MemberAlthough I am still surprised it got in
OptimalPrime
MemberWell I can say that 1 thing is obvious, that you're a complete idiot
Arrow189
MemberFeels like they kept this one just to spite the guy that FFD'ed it...
EightyNine
MemberFor good reason.
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