Governments choose mass surveillance over actual child protection

This is a two-panel Drake preference meme criticizing how many governments approach online child safety. In the top panel, Drake (representing governments) rejects the logical, effective approach of protecting children through educating them about internet use and privacy, having open conversations with them, fighting pedophilia and harmful content, and addressing smartphone addiction. In the bottom panel, Drake approves of the approach governments actually implement: rolling out mass surveillance, requiring mandatory ID verification for internet use, blocking independent websites, restricting person-to-person online connections, all done under the false pretense of "to protect children".

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Dialogue

Governments

Protect children by educating on Internet, privacy, talking with them, fighting against pedophilia, pornography, and smartphone addiction

Governments

Implementing mass surveillance by asking for ID, blocking sites, blocking human to human connections

"to protect children"

Overview

This is a two-panel Drake preference meme criticizing how many governments approach online child safety. In the top panel, Drake (representing governments) rejects the logical, effective approach of protecting children through educating them about internet use and privacy, having open conversations with them, fighting pedophilia and harmful content, and addressing smartphone addiction. In the bottom panel, Drake approves of the approach governments actually implement: rolling out mass surveillance, requiring mandatory ID verification for internet use, blocking independent websites, restricting person-to-person online connections, all done under the false pretense of "to protect children".

Origin notes

This meme originates from Reddit as a user-created meme, with the original posted title 'Enjoy the new era folks!'. It uses the widely popular Drake Hotline Bling preference meme template, which is commonly used to contrast a rejected option with a preferred option, here repurposed to satirize government policy around internet regulation and child safety.