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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WinterXat
MemberI don't know the context here, but something about the combo of Anthro-Lisa and such a serious subject is just downright hilarious to me.
MorphineTae
MemberFrankly if you trace a popular artist you're an idiot and will be caught. If you're going to trace pick someone who doesn't have a popular style.. for fuck's sake.
Hudson
Former StaffDo not trace at all, it doesn't enhance your drawing skills in any way and there are almost no artists who appreciate you tracing their art anyway.
MorphineTae
MemberYah well, I'd hope that if they do this they're at least not suprised when they get caught. That's all I was trying to say.
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