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The bill leaves messaging out (WhatsApp, Signal) and exempts YouTube Kids, then threatens multimillion-dollar fines for non-compliance, plus floated extras: overnight curfews and limits on infinite scroll for under-18s.

The author discloses he sits on a social-media board, which the thread treats as both a tell and a reason to discount him.

The harder asterisk comes from Australia's live version: a 15-year-old visitor reported it didn't touch existing accounts at all, because age checks there only gate newly created ones.

The case is that bosses cut staff because they can't see the unglamorous work that turns a demo into a product, then blame AI for layoffs that were really over-hiring.

Several commenters flipped it: if a job is just relaying information, the most replaceable role in the building is the CEO's.

A dissent worth keeping: by the only metric that judges CEOs — keeping shareholders happy — AI-driven cuts can be 'good' CEOship, which is the whole problem.