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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Daneasaur
MemberForgive me if I didn't tag something.
... my eyes are a bit cloudy at the moment...
hunts
Memberit still feels like a dream, i dont want to believe hes gone, but he is, a good kick right in the jublies
Starman
MemberIt takes the death of a great man to make miiverse users finally do something other than act like ten-year-old 4chan users.(Not bad mouthing all of them but there's some cringy shit on there.)
Joey the Fox
MemberI'm just glade teht billy gates no dieded I think cuz I liek me sum xbox
Mr Okanowa
MemberHuh surprised mine and a few good others aren't on here
Daneasaur
MemberIt can be hard digging up miiverse posts. I also didn't put this together. sorry.
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