Comment by curt15

2 days ago

Is there a common group of lobbyists trying to push these laws in multiple states? It doesn't seem like a coincidence that these are all popping up around the same time.

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pocksuppet  2 days ago

It's usually not a coincidence that several people or groups of people faced with similar environments perform similar actions. All the hikers ran away screaming around the same time, because they all saw the bear attack.

This Illinois law seems to be based on the California one, which is the completely unintrusive one with no mass surveillance or anything like that. It says every operating system must have a parental controls feature, to be enabled or disabled by the device owner, and every app must respect it.

In addition, unlike the California one, the Illinois one specifies certain specific things that must be parentally controlled, such as financial transactions, and addictive feeds. All of it can be overridden by the device owner without providing ID or anything. It also clearly specifies the penalty for a violation: it's to be treated as consumer fraud/unfair trading practices.

  • bluGill  2 days ago

    These laws also won't work. Kids are smart, and it only takes one to figure out a bypass and all kids in the school know (and they pass it to other schools).

    • matheusmoreira  1 day ago

      The purpose of the law is to surveil adults.

      Nobody actually cares about children, they're just political weapons used to justify everything they want to do. Everybody knows only literal child rapists would ever dare to argue against child protection laws.

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    • pocksuppet  1 day ago

      Lots of things are illegal but people still do them anyway. Sometimes the law succeeds if it only reduces the prevalence of something. People drove 100, the speed limit was set to 50, people now drive 65. Was the speed limit successful? It depends how you define success.

matheusmoreira  1 day ago

No doubt. There's some kind of extremely organized conspiracy to erode freedom worldwide by destroying general purpose computing and installing surveillance.

This junk has even showed up in my country. They used the exact same rationalizations. It was an obvious attempt to regulate social media in order to consolidate political power.

phendrenad2  2 days ago

Whoever they are, they're staying VERY quiet. Usually, the group that's agitating for some stupid law or another isn't satisfied to simply slip it to lawmakers, they usually take to social media and post about how great the law is and praise said lawmaker for proposing it.

I'm watching, whoever you are. You can't hide forever. Your ego will eventually betray you.