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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Juicy
Memberboys will be boys;)
BiasedThoughts
MemberSexy
KenHusky
Memberwhoa yes please
Jugofthat
MemberBetter like this?
Btw guys, Modjo already had art with his character removed once, I don't think he'll forever let it slide now. Just a heads up if you don't like deleted posts on your record.
RusGay
MemberI would LOVE for this to get removed, but when I tried before, the admins shooed me away :) Even though I had artist consent to get it removed x3
Jugofthat
MemberThey did? That's not what usually happens. :/
So now there's two involved people wanting this gone, that doesn't bode well...
Arkham Horror
MemberHow did they shoo you? That isn't common as I understand it.
I'd delete the images myself but we're well past the 48 hour mark.
RusGay
MemberOh, they just laughed at me and told me that if i didn't want it re-uploaded, I shouldn't have uploaded it to the internet.
RusGay
MemberIt wasn't on this piece, but they pretty much laughed at me and told me that if I didn't want stuff re-uploaded, I shouldn't upload it to begin with.
DatRandomGuy34
MemberI would want some of this :p
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