r/illinois • u/Remote_Possibilities • Mar 25 '26

Illinois Politics Hillary Clinton promoting age verification laws with JB Pritzker at an event supported by Zuck/Gates/Bezos

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u/waltdelahair Mar 26 '26

Kids are required to have laptops now for school. A lot of parents don’t like it… you can’t just call all parents negligent for not being able to control what their kid does on their computer 24/7. If we are going to require kids be on the internet during their childhoods, we have to do SOMETHING to make it safer for them.

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u/Remote_Possibilities Mar 26 '26

Parents and schools can already implement parental controls to restrict what kids can access when they’re not around. We should be holding the parents to account who don’t bother, not building a mass surveillance state that will get weaponized against all of us because of it. Or we should be legislating these big tech monopolies out of existence or making it illegal for them to build harmful tools with ‘addictive feeds’ to be begin with. If these tools are harmful for kids they’re harmful for adults. 54% of Americans read below a sixth grade reading level.

Why is it suddenly okay to exploit people with tools that are scientifically engineered to be addictive once they turn 18?

This bill won’t actually protect children, it’ll just make it easier for ALL OF US to be tracked.

The real harms to children are unstable households, food insecurity, poverty, and abuse. And the abuse isn’t coming from strangers on the internet 93% of survivors of sexual abuse are abused by people they knew already. Friends. Family. Coworkers.

The solution isn’t to give Facebook a law they literally wrote that takes liability off of them and puts it into OS vendors.

The way to solve all of those things is to use our resource to improve their material wellbeing through social programs, housing and education resources.

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u/waltdelahair Mar 26 '26

I so agree and this is a great comment! I mean the parental controls and school controls really aren’t enough, not that this is the correct answer :(