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Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill

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Re: Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill

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OK. I was just trying to be cheeky to lighten the mood.

I just want my peers and future generations to live in a society without perpetual, personalized surveillance and gated generalized compute. I think everyone deserves freedom. I appreciate your input!

Re: Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill

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Have you used parental controls? They're complete and utter shit. You cut your child off from almost all of the internet, or you may as well not have any controls at all.

Have you? What makes you think they can't be improved? And what do you think will happen when people set the age in this new system?

App developers don't want to comply with them - that's one reason. Now the law says app developers have to follow parental controls, and are liable for ignoring parental controls. That's a sensible law.

Re: Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill

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Have you? What makes you think they can't be improved? And what do you think will happen when people set the age in this new system?

App developers don't want to comply with them - that's one reason. Now the law says app developers have to follow parental controls, and are liable for ignoring parental controls. That's a sensible law.

I'll concede that perhaps a law is needed to make apps comply with parental controls.

So again, what does that have anything to do with THIS law which mandates something completely different??

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