Comment by jjtheblunt
6 days ago
it's entirely possible such nonsense is all show, and wouldn't be passed, however.
i'm from illinois, worked in california, and no longer live in either. from afar, it seems that whatever california bureaucrats propose, after a short delay, gets proposed by their little sibling bureaucrats in illinois.
This is 100% true
This. IL and MA follow whatever CA does with a few year lag. Considerations of sanity never enter into the discussion.
As an Illinoisan, this kind of stuff makes me want to leave and get somewhere sane. Anybody have recommendations? What places don't have this kind of insanity?
There's some hope in New Hampshire. Our legislature just struck down our equivalent bill[1] while it was in committee. And within the last decade, privacy was enshrined in our state constitution[2], providing us with more legal teeth, on top of our free speech protections, to defeat digital age verification within the state.
[1] https://legiscan.com/NH/bill/HB1658/2026
[2] https://www.nh.gov/glance/state-constitution/bill-rights
As an Illinoisan who left 23 years ago for work in California, worked a summer in Massachusetts, now in Arizona, i think the answer is Antarctica.
Answers will be provided after adequate proof that you will not bring the voting record that made illinois what it is with you.
It has already passed the Colorado senate.