Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Bloof, responding to a complaint that our negative coverage of Elon Musk prevents us covering other completely made-up transphobic stuff:
The difference is that the things Elon does is actually happeni9ng, while the things you feel we -should- be concerned about are just 4chan bigot grievance madlibs that have passed through the far right think tank filter. It's as real as litter trays in school for furries, but boy does it sound good as a thing that is totally happening that people should be mad at... Except whenever people ask for proof, there is none, if there were it would be EVERYWHERE, not just confined to far right blogs, youtube ranters and assholes in comment sections, shithead TERFs at the NYT would be eagerly and thoughtlessly signalboosting it.
There is nothing, you have nothing but insincere shrieks of think of the children', the same kids you will eagerly see married off to people three times their ages the second they hit puberty should your theocratic dreams ever come to pass. If it ever did, you'd still be a mad incel, angry at some other group because nobody wants to be with a bitter husk, you'd be about as likely to get fucked in that universe as you are to have Elon love you back in this one.
In second place, it's Strawb responding to the assertion that a content removal demand by a Brazilian Supreme Court justice isn't a slippery slope:
Yes, it is. Just because you like the outcome doesn't mean that attempted government censorship is suddenly a good thing.
For editor's choice on the insightful side, we start out with one more comment about Musk from Strawb, this time reacting to the wild deposition transcript of him and his lawyer:
At this point, I can't tell if Musk is just sort of a black hole of stupidity, attracting other idiots, or if his own stupidity slowly infects the ones that orbit him.
Next, it's Cat_Daddy with some clarification on the history of SOPA:
The issue with SOPA wasn't that it ensured that copyright issues on platforms have to be blocked, it insured that entire websites have to be blocked. That's like saying YouTube should be blocked because of its copyright infringements. It was a case of copyright maximalism then and it's a case of copyright maximalism now. And it's extremely disappointing that Hollywood has learned nothing.
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is an anonymous comment about AI-powered fake copyright trolling threat letters that were actually just an SEO scam:
You people think it's funny!
But here's a prime example of AI taking jobs from poor, honest, hardworking, SEO scammers like Jhon Smith!
In second place, it's an anonymous rejoinder to Musk's claim that principles matter more than profit":
*Offer valid for far-right principles only
For editor's choice on the funny side, we start out with an anonymous response to a trollish interloper:
This is Discussion, sir! If you want an argument, please proceed to 12A, down the hall.
Finally, it's Cat_Daddy again with a comment about the police chief being hailed as a hero for crashing into a car while fleeing a shooting:
He bravely ran away...
That's all for this week, folks!