Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, both our top comments on the insightful side are about Elon Musk going to war with the ADL. In first place, it’s Thad with some thoughts about the situation:
There are some legitimate criticisms of the ADL, as Mike points out. I tend to agree that they’re too aggressive, and too quick to equate policy criticisms of Israel with antisemitism.
But about the point you’re suing them for calling you an antisemite, you’ve fucked up. And if you’re blaming Jews for antisemitism, well, I gotta say that kinda proves the ADL’s point.
In second place, it’s an anonymous comment about Musk’s claim that he wants ExTwitter to be the marketplace of ideas:
He doesn’t want it to be the main venue for the marketplace of ideas…
He wants it to be the main venue for the marketplace of his ideas. He wants a site where nobody ever disagrees with him and everybody does nothing but praise him.
He is to X as Trump is to Social. They have their own little bubble they reside in and will disallow anybody on their sites that will even attempt to burst their bubble.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from blakestacey about Common Sense Media’s terrible ideas for internet laws:
Oh good, my fediverse instance won’t be in violation if it conducts quarterly audits with an independent nonprofit or law-enforcement agency and the results of that audit are provided to each member of its board of directors.
God, I’m going to miss the Internet.
Next, it’s an anonymous comment about the accusation that Apple “allows” CSAM on iCloud:
They may as well say…
“Child sexual abuse material is stored on disk drives”.
And Seagate, Western Digital, et al allows it.
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is back on the Musk/ADL post, this time replying to a silly comment about supposed government censorship of Twitter:
I’m sorry I can’t hear you over the sound of everyone present laughing at yo dumb ass.
In second place, it’s Stephen T. Stone replying to an even weirder comment about George Carlin’s famous 7 Words being… “still banned by Federal agents since 1972” (?):
Shit. Piss. Fuck. Cunt. Cocksucker. Motherfucker. Tits.
…sorry, what was that you were saying about a ban on seven words?
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with a comment from Thad in response to the accusation that the GOP doesn’t have a platform beyond just grievance politics:
That’s not fair.
Grievance politics and tax cuts for the rich.
Finally, it’s David with a comment in a thread discussing the confusing wording of the idiom about “having your cake and eating it too”:
You only need physical access to the cake to eat it, not possession.
It’s called Habeas Cookies.
That’s all for this week, folks!