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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FeuerSeife
MemberSexelent
MobianX
Blocked"Gay" is now "male/male"?
Bobcat
PrivilegedYes, and straight is now male/female
Lyra's Hand Donor
MemberWhy? What's the point?
Tchikita
MemberLots of people were getting confused over the terms. Like, in a bisexual picture, some people would go "why is this tagged as gay, clearly the men aren't gay since they're also having sex with that female", etc. I mean, the point of tagging stuff as "gay" was still in term of what's happening and not what sexual orientation the characters actually are, but I'm guessing the current tags are just made to be a bit less confusing in that regard.
MobianX
BlockedThere could also be the fact that if someone wants to see yuri, all they'd have do is use the tag "female/female" instead of getting results of both yuri and yaoi which they only wanted results for just the one.
Tala
MemberAll the times I've added 'gay' to my search, I never once saw anything that didn't include two men doing it.
user 136203
MemberGotta love Rajii... And K.M.
Rouserrein
BlockedPaw licks ^3^
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