Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is That Anonymous Coward with a comment about the obvious connection between Tesla and ExTwitter that raises some questions about the judge in the Media Matters laswsuit:
What stock was it Elmo was going to have to sell to keep X running again??
In second place, it's an anonymous comment from that same post:
Heck, if we won't hold Clarence Thomas accountable for accepting slightly obscured bribes, why should we hold O'Connor accountable for clearly favoring Elon. He who has the gold makes the rules."
For editor's choice on the insightful side, we start out with an anonymous comment about the Las Vegas Police Union being afraid of facial recognition tech:
If the cops dont want something used on them, that should automatically mean that cops legally cant use it either.
Next, it's That One Guy with a comment about the court striking down California's Age Appropriate Design Code:
Such a shame, they got judges that aren't idiots and/or corrupt...
California: We're not telling them to take down any specific speech, we're just telling them that if they don't take down speech we don't like we'll punish them for it, totally different!
Court: Yeah no.
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is an anonymous response to the description of Project 2025 as a right-wing masturbatory fantasy":
Conservatives better not read it, then, or they will get excessive hair growth on their hands.
In second place, it's MrWilson with a comment about Tennessee's new quasi-book-ban law:
H.B. 843 clarifies that books containing nudity, or descriptions or depictions of sexual excitement,
So no classical art history.
sexual conduct,
No sex ed.
excess violence,
No wars or assassinations.
or sadomasochistic abuse"
And no studying the process by which laws are passed in the Tennessee state legislature.
For editor's choice on the funny side, we start out with an anonymous reply to someone who made a joke under the name Abraham Lincoln:
Hey, I remember your famous quote, something about believing everything you read on the Internet".
Thanks! You are one of the presidents I can trust!
Finally, it's an anonymous comment about ExTwitter's ongoing freefall:
He tried charging for blue checks, firing employees, not paying severance, not paying lawyers, not paying the previous CEO, not paying rent, ending remote work, disconnecting random servers, returning previously banned accounts, suing critics, launching an LLM, what else could one man possibly do to make a company profitable?
That's all for this week, folks!