- Sources: primary, discussion
- Summary: A 297-point thread argued that an Illinois age-verification law obliges operating system providers, including Linux distributions. The ILGA record for HB 5511 shows that House Floor Amendment No. 1 replaced everything after the enacting clause and applied the act to a covered manufacturer that has an account setup feature with respect to the use of an Internet-enabled device, that Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 replaced everything after the enacting clause again and renamed the act to the Children's Online Safety Act, and that Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 replaced it once more. The enacted act is Public Act 104-0664, effective 2028-01-01.
- Comments: The "operating system provider" wording HN commenters quote belongs to the introduced draft rather than to the act that was signed. This run could not resolve the public act full text at the legacy ILGA path, and the bill status page carries synopses rather than definitions, so whether a Linux distribution is a covered manufacturer is not established here.
- Why it matters: The obligation that reaches engineers is an age-bracket signal API between device makers and application operators, on a 2028 timetable.
- Follow-up: The enacted full text of Public Act 104-0664 and its definition of covered manufacturer.
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