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A 4-panel Joy of Tech comic showing Meta, Instagram, Threads, the Thumbs Up icon, and Facebook personified as party-going characters celebrating the child harm lawsuit settlement. Panel 1: The characters wear party hats and hold champagne, celebrating. Meta says “Woohoo! We settled the child harm case!” Instagram says “And all it cost us was the thing we have the most of… money!” The Thumbs Up adds “I love that it was just a slap on my wrist.” Panel 2: Meta: “We have to pay 17 billion, so that’ll only cost us about ten days of profit annually!” Instagram: “Even less! Our stock jumped almost 14 billion in value on news of the settlement!” Threads: “LOL! So the punishment made us richer!” Panel 3: A banner behind them reads “We won the child harm case.” Facebook: “But you know what’s even better than getting richer? They are forcing us to do age verification.” Threads: “Omg! Birthdates! Government IDs! Face scans!” Panel 4: Meta: “So to prove they’re a kid, we get to collect even more of their data!” Facebook: “This is fantastic! Who can we harm next?”
A 4-panel Joy of Tech comic showing Meta, Instagram, Threads, the Thumbs Up icon, and Facebook personified as party-going characters celebrating the child harm lawsuit settlement. Panel 1: The characters wear party hats and hold champagne, celebrating. Meta says “Woohoo! We settled the child harm case!” Instagram says “And all it cost us was the thing we have the most of… money!” The Thumbs Up adds “I love that it was just a slap on my wrist.” Panel 2: Meta: “We have to pay 17 billion, so that’ll only cost us about ten days of profit annually!” Instagram: “Even less! Our stock jumped almost 14 billion in value on news of the settlement!” Threads: “LOL! So the punishment made us richer!” Panel 3: A banner behind them reads “We won the child harm case.” Facebook: “But you know what’s even better than getting richer? They are forcing us to do age verification.” Threads: “Omg! Birthdates! Government IDs! Face scans!” Panel 4: Meta: “So to prove they’re a kid, we get to collect even more of their data!” Facebook: “This is fantastic! Who can we harm next?”
Panel 1: A boss addresses a row of office workers at their cubicles, saying “OK people! You are going to be wearing these headcams from now on. They record video of how you move while doing your job. The footage will be used to train AI robots so they can do similar jobs.” He holds up a box labeled “AI Headcams.” One worker in the background groans. Panel 2: The boss stands with arms crossed, smiling, saying “This is going great!” In front of him, employees sit at their desks wearing headcams strapped to their foreheads, looking very unhappy. Panel 3: Caption reads “Four weeks later…” The boss stands with arms crossed, saying “Amazing! These robots are doing the job just as well or better than my former employees ever did!” Robots in various colors (purple, orange, blue, green) now sit at the cubicle desks doing the work. Panel 4: A yellow robot holds a headcam device and addresses the boss, saying “OK person! We have decided that you are next to wear the headcam.” The boss looks surprised and alarmed, as the robots workers continue on in front of him with glowing eyes stand and no reactions.
Panel 1: A boss addresses a row of office workers at their cubicles, saying “OK people! You are going to be wearing these headcams from now on. They record video of how you move while doing your job. The footage will be used to train AI robots so they can do similar jobs.” He holds up a box labeled “AI Headcams.” One worker in the background groans. Panel 2: The boss stands with arms crossed, smiling, saying “This is going great!” In front of him, employees sit at their desks wearing headcams strapped to their foreheads, looking very unhappy. Panel 3: Caption reads “Four weeks later…” The boss stands with arms crossed, saying “Amazing! These robots are doing the job just as well or better than my former employees ever did!” Robots in various colors (purple, orange, blue, green) now sit at the cubicle desks doing the work. Panel 4: A yellow robot holds a headcam device and addresses the boss, saying “OK person! We have decided that you are next to wear the headcam.” The boss looks surprised and alarmed, as the robots workers continue on in front of him with glowing eyes stand and no reactions.