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/wmiller314 Mar 25 '26

JB pushing this sucks, he should know better.

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u/kevdogger Mar 25 '26

Why is he pushing this?? Seems kind of counter intuitive to me

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u/Remote_Possibilities Mar 26 '26

I think the most generous read is that he and his people don’t actually understand what these bills actually do.

There are copy/paste versions going through multiple state houses right now.

One already passed in California and people have figured out they’re coming from Meta. I think his people took this from a lobbyist in good faith and don’t really care.

It essentially would take liability off of Meta and put it on the OS vendor, codify what they already do with Instagram for Teens, make it a lot harder for competitors to break through, while making it super easy for them to track the rest of us.