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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Ozelot
Blocked>Silicon, used in computer chips.
Also lubricant and Bad Dragon dildoes.
AdrianDeer
BlockedReally? o.o So is it poisionous to swallow it?
Ozelot
BlockedNo, silicon is the sister element to carbon when it comes to biological processes. It's pretty harmless. I don't know any particular chemicals it's involved with that are highly hazardous. I'm sure there's something but it would involve pretty advanced highly structured molecular compounds and interactions.
Not that you should go bathing in it. It feels great up your butt, though.
Wadxxx
BlockedSilicon, most abundant element on the planet as Silicon Dioxide.
AKA Sand.
someoneelse229
BlockedAlso used to make molds of anatomy of different kinds of animals and/or human bones in chem labs. So yes.
FallenDestiny
MemberStill waiting for Titanium :P
7Metal5Rainbow7
MemberThe second abundant element on planet Earth!
HDplayer
Memberi fucking searched for ages to find silicon in my fucking world (Space Engineers)...
Justsomeloon
MemberThe last part of your sentence nearly killed me from laughing so hard.
Supina
MemberThat's silicone
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