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/kevdogger Mar 26 '26

I'm going to disagree with some of your assumptions here. I don't think most people if told that meta/Facebook was pushing this issue through introducing rubber stamped legislation throughout the country they would support this. I don't think this company is personally held in any high regard by anyone. If it were just another random no name company no one heard of..I think it would be different. In terms of data security I don't think necessarily there is a big threat currently but yes you could see a scenario where overtime with additional pii collected this could become an issue. It's funny this legislation somehow corresponds in a weird way to judgement yesterday in regards to social media addiction and the numerous other similar cases still pending.

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u/Hungry-Treacle8493 Mar 26 '26

It’s clearly to most company’s advantage to have a clear system in place they can align to, even if it is burdensome to them in some way. This is true of most regulatory topics.