Is there a common group of lobbyists trying to push these laws in multiple states? It doesn't seem like a coincidence that these are all popping up around the same time.
This Illinois law seems to be based on the California one, which is the completely unintrusive one with no mass surveillance or anything like that. It says every operating system must have a parental controls feature, to be enabled or disabled by the device owner, and every app must respect it.
In addition, unlike the California one, the Illinois one specifies certain specific things that must be parentally controlled, such as financial transactions, and addictive feeds. All of it can be overridden by the device owner without providing ID or anything. It also clearly specifies the penalty for a violation: it's to be treated as consumer fraud/unfair trading practices.
Nobody actually cares about children, they're just political weapons used to justify everything they want to do. Everybody knows only literal child rapists would ever dare to argue against child protection laws.
Even if this specific law isn't doing that right now, it's quite easy to see how it will eventually. Without surveillance, the law is ineffective. All you need to do is generate some moral outrage at how the children are supposedly bypassing the insecure system and bam, instant scope expansion.
Look at the metagame being played over the long term. It's got nothing to do with children and everything to do with control.
I'm watching, whoever you are. You can't hide forever. Your ego will eventually betray you.
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This junk has even showed up in my country. They used the exact same rationalizations. It was an obvious attempt to regulate social media in order to consolidate political power.