Feb 26th:A new bill in Arizona is making its way through the Senate that would force sites like e621 to implement mandatory age verification for all users—or face potential lawsuits. This system would require third-party vendors to verify every user’s age through a government database. Not only is this a massive violation of privacy, but it also introduces serious risks, including identity theft through phishing schemes and other malicious methods. Worse still, we would have no control over ensuring that user data is permanently deleted after verification.
Since e621 operates out of Arizona, this law would almost certainly impact us if it passes. If you want to help ensure that we can continue serving you without being forced to collect personal information, we urge you to contact Arizona’s senators and ask them to vote NO on this bill.
Please help spread the word about this issue and encourage others to take action.
Further information on the bill itself can be found at the Free Speech Coalition: https://action.freespeechcoalition.com/bill/arizona-hb-2112/
Jan 7th: Small update to the Uploading Guidelines today: We now no longer allow paintovers of AI generated content. Or in other words AI generated content that has been edited to some degree by humans.
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jakal179
MemberMind you I drew this with thumbs on a mobile phone, as zoomed in as was allowable, obviously we were not meant to take this seriously. As someone who is very self conscious about drawing distasteful art and then sharing it I felt an immense sense of insecurity about if I could get through it. It literally put me on the spot and left no option to opt out, gladly it said it would not be shared. But out of spite and possibly amusement at the possibility of having a silly doodle thumbnail that I actually drew was too tempting to pass on. Thanks for crude humor, here's my crude drawing. Please let me keep him. 🥺
jakal179
MemberAnd thanks to everyone who is going around and following up with additional tags, you are appreciated. I tried to cover the basic ten tags for something like this, and didn't realize there was a furID tag upon submitting it.
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