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Re:Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill by jjtheblunt on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @02:34PM (#47416449)
it's entirely possible such nonsense is all show, and wouldn't be passed, however.

i'm from illinois, worked in california, and no longer live in either. from afar, it seems that whatever california bureaucrats propose, after a short delay, gets proposed by their little sibling bureaucrats in illinois.

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Re:Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill by golbez9 on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @02:56PM (#47416680)
This is 100% true
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Re:Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill by enoint on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @03:50PM (#47417385)
It has already passed the Colorado senate.
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Re:Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill by dmitrygr on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @02:38PM (#47416497)
This. IL and MA follow whatever CA does with a few year lag. Considerations of sanity never enter into the discussion.
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Re:Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill by MarsIronPI on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @06:27PM (#47419209)
As an Illinoisan, this kind of stuff makes me want to leave and get somewhere sane. Anybody have recommendations? What places don't have this kind of insanity?
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Re:Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill by stutstev on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @07:48PM (#47419923)
There's some hope in New Hampshire. Our legislature just struck down our equivalent bill[1] while it was in committee, so that's counting for something. And within the last decade, privacy was enshrined in our state constitution[2], providing us with some legal teeth to defeat local digital age verification laws.

From the New Hampshire Constitution (Part 1, Article 2-b - Right of Privacy):

>"An individual's right to live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent."

[1] https://legiscan.com/NH/bill/HB1658/2026

[2] https://www.nh.gov/glance/state-constitution/bill-rights

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Re:Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill by jjtheblunt on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @06:43PM (#47419364)
As an Illinoisan who left 23 years ago for work in California, worked a summer in Massachusetts, now in Arizona, i think the answer is Antarctica.
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Re:Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill by dmitrygr on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @07:44PM (#47419892)
Answers will be provided after adequate proof that you will not bring the voting record that made illinois what it is with you.
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