Illinois HB5511 and HB5066, age verification bills, rescheduled for new hearing for March 25.File a witness slip in opposition.HB5511 (Requires your operating system, including Linux, to broadcast your age to all the applications on your computer)https://ilga.gov/House/hearings/details/3062/22637/CreateWitnessSlip/?legislationId=167486&GaId=18&View=CreateHB5066 (ID uploads and face scans to use social media, including forums, IRC, 4chan, etc)https://ilga.gov/House/hearings/details/3062/22637/CreateWitnessSlip/?legislationId=166575&GaId=18&View=CreateInstructions for filing witness written testimony if you live in Illinoishttps://ilga.gov/Uploads/Testimony/House/Remote_Committee_Hearing_Process_February2025.pdfI'm less worried about HB5066 because similar laws have been ruled unconstitutional in the courts. But HB5511 will allow groomers to run websites and deploy apps and collect information on who all the children are because their operating system will rat them out. HB5511 will also essentially ban all websites from being available in the state if the user's operating system doesn't rat out the user's age. It'll create huge liability for open source hobby projects as well!The pressure on lawmakers is working. One of the bill sponsors of HB5511 has removed themselves as a sponsor.I'm trying to coordinate opposition to crap like this, and if you want to join, add me on Matrix and I'll add you to the group (about to start work for the day so It might be tomorrow that I add you):> Matrix@constantonlinesyndrome:matrix.org
>>108414397Compelled speech is not legal
HB5066 is far worse than HB5511.
>>108414397So everyone has to jump through hoops and suffer just because lazy parents can not be bothered with managing their children
