Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side Stephen T. Stone with a comment about platforms systematically removing a user for making a deck of Most Wanted CEO playing cards:

The same people who celebrate this will whine their asses off if someone gets banned from Twitter for saying a racial slur. Can't wait to see the hypocrisy in action.

In second place, it's an anonymous comment about the New York Post declaring that fact checking is censorship:

The fact they see fact checking as a threat gives the entire game away. They know they cannot back up their propaganda,so they attack the only thing standing in their way, facts.

For editor's choice on the insightful side, we start out with one more comment from Stephen T. Stone, this time about Mark Lemley ditching Meta as a client over Zuckerberg's recent moves:

This, folks, is what we call not obeying in advance".

Next, it's n00bdragon about how strange it is to watch everyone kiss Trump's ring:

I just cannot wrap my head around why everyone is lining up around the block to go to bat for the clown. If Trump were the sort of person to reward his minions for their loyalty I could understand, but as far as I can tell he has never been particularly loyal to anyone who gives him stuff or does things for him. Currying favor does nothing if he's going to throw you under the bus the nanosecond a better deal (or hell, just something more entertaining) comes along.

And that sets us up for our first place winner on the funny side, which comes from an anonymous commenter later in the thread of replies to that comment:

Are you saying that some of them want to use him?
And that some of the people want to be used by him?

Sounds like someone could make a pretty decent song outta that.

In second place, it's another anonymous comment about the New York Post:

Rag notorious for counterfactual flights of fancy defends the right to lie

Truly an unforeseeable turn of events.

For editor's choice on the funny side, we start out with a comment from Diogenes summing up the TikTok ban situation:

The US government blinked

US: Divest or shut down.
tiktok: ok we will shut down
US: Wait, not that!

Finally, it's David with a comment about telecoms trying to hype up 5G by glomming on to the hype around AI:

AI for networking is just what we need

That way the network can not only be bad, but also be petulant about it.

That's all for this week, folks!