Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
from the we're-back dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Stephen T. Stone with a comment about the steps toward the Russian splinternet:
A Reminder:
The people most hurt by war always have the least to do with causing it.
In second place, it’s Thad with a comment about how tracking an innocent person’s movement can make them look guilty:
Confirmation bias will inevitably play a role too — if you’re surveilling somebody, that tends to imply you already think they’re up to no good, and you’ll interpret their movements in that context.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start with an anonymous comment about the Open App Market App, making an important distinction:
There is a difference from allowing side loading, available in Android, and forcing an app store to accept all third party applications, which is what the objective of the bill appears to be.
Next, it’s That One Guy with a response to the conservatives who are demanding DuckDuckGo provide neutral, unfiltered search so they can “do their own research”:
Spam and garbage for days
It’d be hilarious it if DDG responded by making an ‘unbaised’ option that completely randomized all listing order results from a search since any one of them could have the result being looked for and people need to ‘do their own research’ by wading through it all to find what they might have been looking for.
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is another response to the DuckDuckGo situation, this time from an anonymous commenter who is either hilariously wrong or hilariously sarcastic, I’m not quite sure:
Do your own research
How are they supposed to do their own research if the search engine downrank the results they want?
In second place, it’s jojo_36 with a comment about McDonald’s and its fight over broken ice cream machines:
You could say that through this situation, McDonald’s isn’t Mcloving it.
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we’ve got a brief exchange from our post about Thomas Goolnik’s ongoing efforts to hide Google search results for his name. First, it’s radix with a proposal:
A recursive Streisand Effect where the subject is trying to hide the Streisand Effect should be known as the Goolnik Effect.
Next, it’s That One Guy replying to fill in the details:
Streisand Effect: To attempt to hide something only for the attempt to draw even more attention to what you were trying to hide.
Goolnik Effect: To attempt the above and upon seeing it blow up in your face try it again multiple times in the mistaken belief that if you loudly keep telling people ‘Stop looking at me!‘ it will work.
See also: ‘pattern recognition, lack of’.
That’s all for this week, folks!
Comments on “Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt”
War and people and capitalism,
Realization that we were dealing with Russia?
That Fuel orders are 6 months ago, Due to loading ships and shipping and then processing the Oil into Fuel.
What a Boon to the Oil profits.
Which is very strange to think about after 2 major wars to keep Russia from getting more Oil. Afghanistan and Kuwait?
Forget about Profits. Everyone is subsidizing oil.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12112015/fossil-fuel-subsidies-top-450-billion-annually-study-says/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAybaRBhDtARIsAIEG3kkRhgvtCPiFf2IP2R4fDxbkqHmxv3mHRdrN9aEcfudWuwR8flB4N_QaAty3EALw_wcB
$24 billion from our own gov.
Then $8 billion in Exporting from USA, and another $8 billion Profit for Importing To the USA.
Are they loosing so much money that they Need Subsidies?
There are few reasons to take another nation. The major ones are Farming and oil. Russia didnt want Ukraine to become part of the UN or the EU. Insted of trade and helping, this was their own recourse.
Goolnik
the definition of stupid is doing something again and again that does not work expecting a positive result ,maybe hes up to no good .
whos going to use a search engine that ranks up spam or links to dangerous websites malware before websites that have a good reputation
Re: what would be fun
is to run a spider scan of the Net and send it to him.
I wasn't nominated. Waaah!!!
To be fair, I couldn’t have possibly been nominated because I never made a comment. Why did I never make a comment? Because I was on JoCoCruise 2022 and internet access was über-expensive and slow, so I decided to go without it for the length of the cruise. Besides, I figured that spending time on the internet would defeat the purpose of a vacation, so I abstained like a celibate teetotaler.
Re:
You are not longer allowed near young Buds.
The Internet is a great place to share information with the world. But it can also be a dangerous place where people can be coerced into doing things they otherwise wouldn’t do. It’s important that we keep an eye out for things like revenge porn and fake news websites that try to take advantage of people’s emotions by playing on their insecurities and anxieties.