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
BlockedFun fact: Taking a single puff off a cigarette is roughly equivalent to sticking your mouth on the end of your car's tail pipe while it's running and taking a nice deep breath, toxicologically speaking in terms of the chemicals your body will end up absorbing.
Thank you for smoking.
W0LFB3AT5
MemberWikipedia is bad for you, you know that, right?
ksharbaugh
MemberApple Jack is the new Marlboro Mare.
Well, first actually.
Vyvyan
Member"Cigarettes are bloody fantastic and they might not kill you, they are the only thing I would ever agree to advertise." - Jo Brand
Ozelot
Blockedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tg1kEBUO9A
Old Banned smoking advertisement. Animators made a lot of money back in the day getting contracted from the tobacco companies.
Vyvyan
MemberThey sure did.
7Metal5Rainbow7
MemberFerrocerium is used as a flint of lighters.
7Metal5Rainbow7
Memberalso, don't smoke.
Smoking kills.
Vyvyan
MemberSmoke, people need to die.
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