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.

  • barbara
    702·
    7 months ago7 months ago

    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.

    • Kidplayer_666
      360·
      7 months ago

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

        • dubyakay
          180·
          7 months ago

          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!!!”

          • Sabata11792
            50·
            7 months ago

            inlawing

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

    • LWD
      353·
      7 months ago

      Mostly the party of small government.

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

      • schnurrito
        174·
        7 months ago

        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.

          • LWD
            10·
            6 months ago

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

        • LWD
          511·
          7 months ago6 months ago

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          • LWD
            13·
            7 months ago

            deleted by creator

  • delirious_owl
    310·
    6 months ago6 months ago

    oh, no, not the furries! but honestly:

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

    • OneWomanCreamTeam
      30·
      6 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.

  • ji59
    292·
    7 months ago

    …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.

    • blujan
      400·
      7 months ago

      I don’t know the site that much, but I know that “harmful to minors” can mean anything.

      • FilterItOut
        100·
        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.

      • Dirk Darkly
        31·
        7 months ago

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

    • Ignotum
      90·
      7 months ago7 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…

    • otp
      93·
      7 months ago

      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…

      • LWD
        123·
        7 months ago

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

        • otp
          20·
          7 months ago

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

          • Gabu
            60·
            6 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.

  • Gabu
    140·
    6 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.

  • neutron
    130·
    7 months ago

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

    • jkrtn
      100·
      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.

  • Scolding0513
    110·
    6 months ago

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

  • Titou
    100·
    6 months ago

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

  • Kairos
    30·
    6 months ago

    The politicians in Arizona

    Which ones? The republican minority?

    • Kairos
      10·
      6 months ago

      Hi. That is incorrect. Sorry.

  • kugmoEnglish
    618·
    7 months ago

    Obligatory “yiff in hell” post

    • thyme
      816·
      7 months ago

      Sort of in the same way that “christian” is new terminology for pedophilia.

    • jak
      743·
      7 months ago

      Not really. It’s people who enjoy art of personified/anthropomorphized animals. Sometimes it’s sexual, sometimes it involves personas and costumes, sometimes it’s just rabbits in bankers’ outfits. It’s viewed as weird by a lot of people because they assume it’s all costumes and sex, but looney tunes technically also counts, so it’s much more widespread than people identifying with it is.

      • wahmingEnglish
        330·
        7 months ago

        Lola bunny, creating an entire generation of furries.

          • SharkEatingBreakfast
            230·
            7 months ago

            Furries have been around for a long long looooong time.

            Have you seen depictions of the old Egyptian gods? Wild.

            • Gabu
              20·
              6 months ago

              The medieval monks literally made up an entire subspecies of humans with dog heads which they actually believed to be real!

          • wahmingEnglish
            120·
            7 months ago

            Oh right, how could I forget.

            Rip Disney animators, you did your jobs well

    • satxdude
      252·
      7 months ago

      There’s almost certainly way more zoophiles among the furry population, but most(?) furries aren’t attracted to literal animals AFAIK. Or don’t act on it. Uh

      • Takios
        341·
        7 months ago

        Zoophiles are generally shunned in the furry communities I know.