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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papercat
MemberOut of plain curiosity:
Why is every single one of these sketches being uploaded?
Antallo
MemberA touch of the 'tism.
We're not supposed to upload entire webcomics. And some people keep insisting that these don't count because they are sketches.
Frankly, they are flooding the 2kinds tag and are starting to make fanart more of a chore to find.
Morgan Freeman
MemberIn terms of what happens in the comic: I fucking knew something would go wrong.
Shingen
Memberthey're easy to exclude.
-pool:7516
you can even blacklist it
because it's an art archive site, and some people, like me, may be interested in this kind of "behind the scenes". getting to those sketches after next page gets uploaded is a pain (or even impossible, if you don't figure out the naming convention + there was one page with a different link).
also, it gives people a place to comment on the webcomic's story, without leading views away from the twokinds page, and therefore without decreasing Tom's ad revenue and such.
Antallo
MemberYou can access the sketch pages on the 2kinds website and we're not supposed to upload webcomics. Sketches of comics are the same thing. How about you just read the comic and save e621 for the fanart?
BananFisk
Memberi wonder if Mike and Evals has anything to do with this
Shingen
Memberi have to correct myself here, as you apparently can't actually blacklist posts by pool number :(
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