Comment by 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.
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).
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.
There is no surveillance in this law - please stop spreading FUD. Some other laws in other places, with similar stated purposes, mandate surveillance.
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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.