How to get fired at the surveillance factory

This is a three-panel satirical comic meme. The first panel shows a corporate boardroom meeting where the lead attendee leaning on the table asks the group, 'how do we protect kids online?'. The second panel shows three attendees giving suggestions: the first proposes 'make everyone verify their identity', the second proposes 'face scans', and the third casually dressed attendee resting his head on one hand suggests 'Get their parents to actually parent them?'. The third panel cuts to the lead attendee looking furious, followed by the attendee who suggested parenting being thrown out of the high-rise office building window. The joke satirizes tech and surveillance companies that intentionally reject simple, reasonable solutions to problems like child online safety in favor of invasive, privacy-violating surveillance measures that benefit their business goals, hence the title about getting fired for suggesting the obvious unprofitable solution at a surveillance factory.

Dialogue

how do we protect kids online?
make everyone verify their identity
face scans
Get their parents to actually parent them?

Overview

This is a three-panel satirical comic meme. The first panel shows a corporate boardroom meeting where the lead attendee leaning on the table asks the group, 'how do we protect kids online?'. The second panel shows three attendees giving suggestions: the first proposes 'make everyone verify their identity', the second proposes 'face scans', and the third casually dressed attendee resting his head on one hand suggests 'Get their parents to actually parent them?'. The third panel cuts to the lead attendee looking furious, followed by the attendee who suggested parenting being thrown out of the high-rise office building window. The joke satirizes tech and surveillance companies that intentionally reject simple, reasonable solutions to problems like child online safety in favor of invasive, privacy-violating surveillance measures that benefit their business goals, hence the title about getting fired for suggesting the obvious unprofitable solution at a surveillance factory.

Origin notes

This meme is a derivative of the popular 'boardroom suggestion' / 'employee thrown out window' meme template. It was shared on the Reddit r/Meme subreddit, sourced via RSS feed. The format is commonly used to mock situations where obvious, common-sense solutions are rejected by leadership in favor of self-serving, unpopular alternatives.

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