Ponder this scenario... a convicted and registered sex offender living in state that has not passed a similar law visits a social network site. While the offender's data packets are in transit across the Internet, they are passed through a router residing in a state that has passed such a law, e.g. Illinois. Has that person suddenly unwittingly committed a crime and is now prosecutable in IL for the violation?
Admittedly, this is an extreme scenario but far from unimaginable (and easily abused, especially if the social networking site's web servers physically reside in a state with a similar law). While it is admirable that the state of Illinois is pushing laws with intent to further protect its state's children (I am making an assumption that this is their true intent), state laws just do not scale well when applied to a system as large and dynamic as the Internet (technically, neither do national laws but that is a discussion for another article on another day).
