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Here's a link to the news. https://e621.net/news_updates

Edit: As people in the comments pointed out, this bill targets all websites hosting porn. e621 just happens to be hosted in Arizona, and it therefore affects them directly.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

This is not a witch hunt against that site. It's probably the only site residing in arizona that cares and which you visit. They could easily relocate, which they probably do if the bill is passed.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My bet is that it is a law against porn, and furry porn would be inside that

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They just outlawed 99% of the internet?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's not outlawing. It's inlawing.

Wait. That's something different. It's regulating.

No wait, that's something different too. It's "but think of the children!!!"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

inlawing

Feel bad for the Arazona guys that don't get to witness the newest porn fad.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I have no idea how government regulation of the Internet has become so normalized.

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Mostly the party of small government.

They just want to keep children safe... from the LGBTs.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

From your article:

Despite this, KOSA enjoys bipartisan support, including a July endorsement from President Joe Biden.

The worst laws in the US are usually supported by both parties.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

But in reality, bigots tend to be Republicans.

Is this you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We have two parties: regressives and regressives but slower.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

In the same way living a full life is equivalent to suicide, sure.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

oh, no, not the furries! but honestly:

FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE FURRIES AND I DID NOT SPRAK OUT

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I mean, laws like this don't just effect furries. It's a privacy issue for everyone in the state, and everyone who who usesa website based out of the state.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (3 children)

...PUBLISHES OR DISTRIBUTES MATERIAL HARMFUL TO MINORS ON THE INTERNET FROM A WEBSITE THAT CONTAINS A SUBSTANTIAL PORTION OF MATERIAL HARMFUL TO MINORS...
Since furry porn isn't harmful, they should be ok.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I don't know the site that much, but I know that "harmful to minors" can mean anything.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Think of the children!

I'll believe they're thinking of the children when they use that phrase to make laws that agree with the environmental groups and governing bodies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah, like it could mean they'll become furries.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

How much is a "substantial amount"? There's not thaaat much porn on e621, most of it is marked safe
Well a lot of it is...
Well some of it is...
I'm relatively sure i saw one marked safe once...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure that viewing pornography can be harmful to young children.

Not all "minors", but some people forget that the phrase includes both 17 year olds and 4 year olds in some states...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If a 4 year old is exposed to furry porn, I don't think the culprit is the website.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I didn't assign blame to the website, or to anything. I just said that viewing sexual material can be harmful to children.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Which is the problem with completely open ended language, which is always used in such bills so as to only apply to whoever they want to persecute.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

At this point, I honestly expected it to have been moved to some European country... I mean, what site? Never heard of it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I assume there are more issues preventing them from simply relocating to another hosting?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

I don't think that matters if they have a business nexus presence in that state. Like if (most of) the developer(s) working on it are in the state they could be subject to the law.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

WHY CANT I JUST GOON TO PICS OF KRYSTAL FROM STAR FOX IN PEACE

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Why not moving the website on another country/continement ? Or even better federating it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The politicians in Arizona

Which ones? The republican minority?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Hi. That is incorrect. Sorry.