From State Senator Jason Plummer:
Legislation Filed to Protect Vulnerable Children on the Internet
Senator Plummer is co-sponsoring legislation filed by Senator Erica Harriss (R-Glen Carbon), which is designed to protect minors from exposure to harmful and inappropriate content online by implementing age verification requirements in Illinois.
The Adult Content Age Verification Act, Senate Bill 2950, would require businesses to put in place “reasonable age verification methods” to ensure that individuals entering pornographic websites are indeed of legal age.
State Senator Jason Plummer (R-Edwardsville) who serves as Chief Co-Sponsor on the legislation says,
“We owe it to the kids and their parents to do what we can to create safeguards to protect them from the growing amount of inappropriate and sometimes horrific content that is currently easily available online to anyone of any age.
“This initiative goes hand-in-hand with our continued efforts to protect children from being exploited, including further work to crack down on human trafficking.”
“Our youth are incredibly vulnerable on the internet, and they have access to a wide variety of adult content, some of which can be harmful, hurtful, and inappropriate,” said Senator Harriss.
“I filed this legislation to help protect children from accessing explicit material intended for adult viewership by requiring more accountability from pornographic websites.”
A recent report found that most teens had consumed porn online and first encountered it on average at age 12. More than half were exposed accidentally, including from friends or classmates, search engine results, social media, or by clicking links, according to the report’s findings.
“Leading health organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, warn that consuming pornography as a minor can be associated with a variety of negative emotional, psychological, behavioral and physical health outcomes,” said Sen. Harriss.
“My legislation puts the health of our children first, by implementing reasonable verification requirements that should be expected of businesses profiting off non-verified underaged viewers.”
The legislation identifies the “reasonable age verification methods” a business must follow, include requiring a government-issued ID or any commercial method that relies on specific transactional data to verify the person is 18 years or older.
Businesses would be given 30 days to comply with the appropriate age verification methods. If entities fail to do so, they will be subject to civil penalties assessed by the Court. Funds from civil penalties would then be disbursed into the Cyber Exploitation of Children Fund established to help state and local law enforcement agencies develop an effective response to technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and internet crimes against children.
Further, the bill allows the Attorney General to investigate an alleged violation against a business who publishes or distributes pornographic material to minors who have not submitted reasonable age verification.
Homos like Monk, Martin and Joe will have a conniption fit over this!
This is the crap that occupies the collective minds of our legislators ?
It’s the responsibility of parents to oversee what their children are watching/doing.
Idiots fiddling while Illinois burns.
Did Erica Harriss catch her husband rubbing one off behind her back and is worried it rubbed off on her own children?
Legislation was written by a rare collaboration, of Drag Show Librarians and graveyard shift night clerks, at interstate exit porno shops.
State level requirements like this are nothing but an exercise in virtue signaling.
It’s quite easy to spoof your location using proxy servers or VPNs, and the kiddies tend to be a whole lot more tech savvy than the adults who are trying to restrict them.
Additionally, most of the Pr0n servers are located offshore, and their owners don’t really give a rat’s a** about any legislation passed by the Illinois General Assembly.
MrsTrumpion has gonorrhea
Congrats Trumpion. You TRIGGERED Lil Joey Snowflake. He contracted crabs this weekend on Halsted from his mandate and is itching himself while he types.
JT, you have serious mental issues. It’s a shame about your hippocampus shrinkage. You don’t even realize what a pathetic loser you are and deny living your sad life on a blog. Maybe putting some pants on, getting off of Twitter, and leaving this blog will help you function as a somewhat normal person in the outside world. Please seek help and talk to someone about your constant desires and sexual thoughts regarding homoerotica and Epstein. Your antagonism has caused you family to disown you and shame you. Its a fact that people who believe in conspiracies have a stronger need to feel special and have a personality that falls into the spectrum of schizotypy. We here at the blog urge you to seek help regarding your homosexual obsessive compulsive disorder. Its obvious and troubling. It’s sad and somewhat humorous that you have become a mockery of yourself. I hope this message finds you and leads you down the right path to recovery. LOSER. LOL.
Lil Joey Snowflake knows how to use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V on his keyboard. Impressive. Did you take a class at MCC while cruising for young boys to molest?
Joseph, your reply to Trumpion exposes you for being the homosexual she accused you of being.
Typical homosexual move: distract and attack the accusant.
Why don’t you just come and say you oppose the new proposed statute because you and your deviant kind need to infect more young minds?
It’s only obvious!
Searching for key words like freedom, liberty, rights, justice, etc.. will indicate that some Americans will be considered terrorist by the swamp. Look with this Jew DHS commissar is up to:
https://summit.news/2023/09/15/dhs-awards-20-million-to-program-that-flags-americans-as-potential-extremists-for-their-online-speech/
One thing people are concerned about with this type of legislation: some people say this is the first step towards having to show ID to go on the internet in general. Once the idea is introduced and normalized for one thing, such authentication/identification will be required to access the internet in general.
Want to go on Cal’s site?
Ok.
Let’s scan your eyeballs.
How does that sound?
Do you like that idea?
There is a push for that in some corners of the tech world and obviously much of the private sector and the government wants that. Sometimes there is a deeper agenda being pushed, some kind of long game. But some would reply, “That’s just a conspiracy theory” and say you have nothing to worry about, because this concept and this tech will never be expanded on, never be misused! Something to think about.
This proposal probably doesn’t matter. Anti-porn legislation proposed by a Republican? What is the chance of that passing in Illinois? 0 percent? There are already a few states (perhaps Mississippi, Virginia, and Utah iirc) that have legislation like this, but I do not know the fine details and how it works in practice.
Yes, I agree totally Correcting.
I’m just trying to explain why Joe Joe Rabbit deplores the bill.
That’s why I brought up Mayorkas!
Okay, better late than never. Now pass a bill for he-shes reading books and grooming our children. They are kind of like Priests of the 2020s except they are more open and notorious, and the mothers assist them. Go figure.
Ah. Yeah, I am not tech literate enough to have an insightful opinion plus it seems the specific regulations are not fully formed yet anyway which makes it impossible to evaluate.
Conceptually it definitely makes sense to not allow minors to access porn though, but one theme I try to push on this blog’s readers is for people to try to understand a situation more fully — the pros, the cons, the implications — as opposed to knee jerk reactions and processing things strictly on how they “feel.”
I remember people supporting the Patriot Act too because we had to keep the country safe from terrorists (a noble goal).
Now you don’t find many defenders left as the bill did things they didn’t realize it would do.
Joey is just a troll.
He rips on people for commenting regularly on this blog, caring about current events and politics.
It’s weird since this is a blog about current events and politics, and he comments here regularly as well…
He has a hypocritical sense of superiority.
He usually doesn’t offer any useful insight.
Some of the trolls on this blog when they do comment seriously once in a blue moon say reasonable things.
Maybe he will do so one day.
“Joey is just a troll. He rips on people for commenting regularly on this blog, caring about current events and politics. ” are you fucking kidding me. He rips on people that are to lame and only complain. Very few people on here ever talk politics. Who are you crapping. More pontificating from the intellectually bankrupt Correcting. does your wife know you have a giant stick up your ass.
Freihexctstrychler Joe never complained about the Bill. He was responding to the cunt Mrs Grumpion.
I regret to inform Stephen, he’s not as good at comment pornography as he thinks.
Thanks for your insight douche bag.
Oh, don’t get me wrong Stephen, being a one-note monomaniacal asshole is great way to build up a following of other one-note monomaniacal assholes if this blog proves anything.
Please continue.
You too. asshole
Someone is an angry troll this morning. His gerbil must have gotten out while he slept.
More trolling from the Jumbo Troll. Tell us again how you gave BJs to Obama.
I just figured that I would point out that Joseph didn’t express any concerns about the proposed law.
But the MAGA anti-LGTBQ folks (JT, HonestAbe, Billy Bob, Correcting) have. 🤔
Couldn’t resist could you Dave Lowitzki. Is it a slow day for lobbying? How’s Mrs. Ed? We (MAGA) know a socialist marxists like you trying to confuse children on their gender is just another chapter in Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals playbook. You should be happy the Kenyan who was selected for 2 terms likes men and smoking crack. Ask Big Mike.
Remember Dave, Biden got 81m legitimate votes. There’s no doubt in anyone’s mind you voted for him.
And Porkboy, you are extremely flustered today aren’t you? I sent you the Tucker Carlsoon interview with the guy who blew Obummer on back to back evenings while doing blow.
And I say it was you who was doing it. Still seeking validation Chodey? Tucker the fucker needs ratings, so he captures idiots like you. Who cares but insecure douche bags like you.
You don’t need to “point out” anything. I’ll help you figure out what happened since you’re either confused or lying.
My comment was in reference to the 6:23 comment which started out by mentioning Joseph.
“Joseph, your reply to Trumpion…”
Get it now?
I don’t care if people express concerns about the bill or praise the bill, Shake. That’s actually kind of what we want more of on this blog: a discussion as opposed to name calling.
Trumpion and Joseph have not done anything in this thread except exchange personal insults. Pokorny is obviously another person who comes here to troll even though they have the mental capacity to do more and have done so on rare occasions. Pointing this out made him angry. I don’t know why since I intended it somewhat as a compliment, but Pokorny is an angry little guy so this should not surprise me.
You better learn how to read, Shake. This is easy stuff to figure out and your constant obfuscating and gaslighting is getting boring.
Yes, Shake, and we’ll see what happens to this bill. How many Democratic co-sponsors does it have? Aren’t you a Democratic lobbyist? Are you going to be whipping the votes on this? I don’t see you saying anything about it either. You’re just commenting about people commenting. You’re a weasel and a coward.
And the Pontiff has spoke.
“Pokorny is obviously another person who comes here to troll.” I have as much as admitted it. You and the great unwashed come here to complain. On of the few that will actually talk politics is lopez, and the Junior thinkrer, The biggest troll of all has chased him out of the mix.
LOFL Correcting.
* That’s actually kind of what we want more of on this blog: a discussion as opposed to name calling. *
Agreed. Which is largely why I’ve stopped commenting in this cesspool.
But, fair enough. You didn’t explicitly express concerns about the legislation. You just expressed why (some) people may have concerns about it. So I take back your name from my list of folks that don’t like this.
**your constant obfuscating and gaslighting is getting boring.**
LOL – how can my constant anything be a thing on this blog when I comment once or twice a month. And you definitely don’t know what gaslighting means. You and Lopez/Avelar should hang out.
Correcting: “You’re a weasel and a coward.”
Also Correcting: “a discussion as opposed to name calling.”
Cool cool.
As to the bill – I’m indifferent. I don’t think that it solves many (if any) problems, but I also see little harm in it. I don’t have a problem with requiring age verification for things that are legally only supposed to be available for folks of a certain age.
Dave Lowitzki no one misses you when you don’t post. You are a self proclaimed proud lobbyist In IL that pushed for murdering the unborn, higher taxes on IL residents and the queer agenda. You’re a disgusting human being with twisted views.
Marc Avelar and you should start a blog. No one cares about the drivel that Snowflake posts either. Look at his Twitter. He stalks women exclusively and pushes establishment candidates that will do nothing to bring us back to Trump’s 1st term.