internet-4
Explanation
The comic shows a man learning that, in order to exercise the "right to be forgotten" on the internet, a company was paid 10 overseas peasants to legally change their names to his, and the total cost will be 4 million dollars. The caption reads: 'The solution to the "right to be forgotten" ended up being worse than the problem.'
This satirizes the European "right to be forgotten" legal concept, which allows individuals to request that search engines remove links to personal information. The comic imagines a dystopian, absurdly literal implementation: rather than deleting data, the system just buries an individual's identity by creating other people with the same name, making it impossible to distinguish them in search results. The joke highlights how well-intentioned privacy regulations can lead to bizarre, expensive, and ethically questionable workarounds when applied to the vast, decentralized nature of the internet.