[Chicago-talk] Illinois considering passing a law to require age verification with smartphones, and Linux

[Mike Fragassi]

I thought this might be of interest to pass along here. 2 bills are going
through the Illinois state legislature right now that seek to duplicate the
age verification laws that California just passed, that you might have
heard about. If you haven't heard of this, here's a short video:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3wb349iuMwQ

And an EFF explainer about why this is bad.
https://www.stoponlineidchecks.org/

If anyone is interested in submitting a "Witness Slip" about this (not
writing out anything, it's just a form to register "I oppose this" or "I
favor this"), you can do so here:
https://ilga.gov/House/hearings/details/3062/22677/CreateWitnessSlip/?legislationId=166575&GaId=18&View=Create

That's only for a hearing on  HB5511 (Children's Social Media Safety Act,
full text here:
https://ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus/FullText?GAID=18&DocNum=5066&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=166575&SessionID=114
).

There were hearings for the other bill, HB5066 (Social Media Age
Restriction Act), but they already took place yesterday.
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