Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
from the fair-comment dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous comment making the simple, undeniable point that ICE’s fake college sting really isn’t surprising:
Hasn’t it always been like this for federal enforcement?
Let’s be fair, if it wasn’t for honey traps, self-made criminal operations, and entrapment stings the feds wouldn’t have much of a job or many busts.
In second place, it’s PaulT responding to an example of that disappointing tendency some have to support SLAPP suits when they target publications they don’t like for unrelated reasons:
OK.
Then, when someone tries this crap against an outlet you do support, there’s already precedent against them – and you’ve gleefully demanded it’s available to be used against them. Bravo.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from Spyder about Pete Davidson’s NDA requirement for his stand-up show:
So does that mean, after seeing the show, I could not tell my friends/family “Yeah, the show was great, you should go see it”? By the reading of the NDA, that would be “offering an(y) opinion” and render me liable.
Given that there would be no other reviews of the show available online (as per the NDA), how else would someone be able to determine if the show is worthy to view?
Next, it’s That One Guy aiming to answer the question of why Creative Futures members aren’t commenting about the group smearing a respected law professor:
Sometimes silence says a lot
By refusing to comment on the matter the default assumption, until they do comment, should be that they support what has been done and said and are just too cowardly to come out and admit it.
Microsoft may not have issued an official statement on the issue but they at least had the guts to make clear that they did not agree with what had been done and were willing to make that displeasure clear by disassociating themselves from the pack of dishonest fearmongerors, and if a company like them can do so any of the rest could as well, if they actually objected to what had been said.
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is an anonymous comment from our post about the author who tried to trademark all use of the word “dark”:
It was a trademarked and stormy night…
In second place, it’s Stephen T. Stone with a speculative dramatization of the lead-up to Devin Nunes’ lawsuit against CNN:
Devin Nunes, to his lawyers: CNN would obviously run from this fight. It?s owned by a massive multi-billion-dollar media conglomerate with plenty of money for lawyers. So why would they risk losing the suit by keeping it alive and going through to discovery?
One of the lawyers: Well, sir?
Nunes: You?re fired. And sued for defamation. And I?m pretty sure I can claim eminent domain on your house now. Now get out before I have you thrown out and sued for the emotional distress of having you thrown out.
[the lawyer leaves]
Nunes: This is an excellent plan.
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with an anonymous commenter who offered an alternative theory about the silence from Creative Futures members:
Mike, the reason that you didn’t get any comments is that you don’t have a license to consume that content.
And finally, we’ve got one more comment from Stephen T. Stone — because before his more substantial skit above, he offered up a single line of dialogue from Nunes to his lawyers which deserves to be presented using the source material it references:
That’s all for this week, folks!
Comments on “Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt”
booo
ya missed mine..
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"ya missed mine.."
No, we don’t miss it at all. 😉
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None of mine ever make it but you never see me complain about it, now do you?
Re: booo
Just thought my Black jokes would work..
(not that kind)
The pot calling the kettle..
Yop, so Black you make my daddy look White.
Re: Re: booo
Trying (and failing) to game the system and then trying to toot your own horn are almost as ugly as your posts. Just stop.
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“When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.” — Paul Brown
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And may your pet duck, quack up..
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Did I ever say I was cute?? NOPE..
And I hope you dont suggest it for yourself..
Stone: Thats not funny even if it could be true. Poor Nunes.
Why do people here assume anonymous cowards dont have techdirt accounts, but would just rather not sign in?
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What isn’t funny about painting Nunes as a ignorant, vindictive, petty, free-speech-hating bastard despite his best attempts to act like he isn’t exactly that?
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Very sad.
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Yes, Nunes and his lawsuits are sad.
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i thought there was only one person who made assuptions about AC accounts and accounts which havent logged in for a while. And accounts they just don’t like.
Not sure what that has to do with anything, but i certainly could be missing the referent. Or perhaps i am missing the angle of some sarcasm.
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Because John Smith makes a living out of thinking that Techdirt is out to get his mailing list.
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I don’t know about the others…
But I just forgot my password and have poorly configured email rules that turn the chance of getting the recovery email into a game of plinko. So just not signing in is less time wasting.
Nice to see the bar is as low as ever for editor’s choice.
Thank you for a very useful article.