Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
from the what's-the-word dept
This week, our winners on the insightful side are a pair of responses to the fearmongering CS professor who insisted that California’s protect-the-kids code is nothing to worry about. In first place, it’s an anonymous comment about misleading claims regarding Instagram and body image issues in teen girls:
Why do those worried about body image issues ignore the fashion and advertising industries, both of which push the ‘perfect’ look?
In second place, it’s That One Guy replying with one simple answer to that question:
Because that would undermine the whole ‘all these problems are because of tech companies and nothing else!‘ narrative.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we’ve got two more comments from that post. First, it’s another anonymous comment, this time pointing out the problems with the claim that website operators were meaningfully consulted about the bill:
Of course, you realize that even if they consulted 999 website owners, they wouldn’t even have reached as high as “rounding error” status.
On the other hand, if they consulted, say, the 150 highest profile websites (enough that they could claim ‘hundreds’), they would have missed entire industries and genres, let alone economic brackets.
Next, it’s That Anonymous Coward with a comment about the whole situation:
That thing where Faux News did to our parents what they thought video games would do to us.
Over on the funny side, both winners come in response to our post about the court dumping Trump’s lawsuit claiming Hillary Clinton rigged the 2016 election. Our first place winner is Rico R. with a response to the attempt to salvage certain particular claims:
It’s not RICO. It’s never RICO. And of all people, I should know! My name is Rico, and I never claimed to know or like this sore winner of a President!
In second place, it’s an anonymous summary of how bizarre the entire thing is since Trump, y’know, won:
When you win so hard you have to frame others for your win…
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with a comment from Norahc about Adobe’s insane estimate of Netflix’s losses due to password sharing:
9 billion? Is Adobe applying their prices to Netflix to calculate costs?
Finally, it’s an anonymous response to Elon Musk attempting to claim that Mudge’s firing should get him out of the Twitter deal:
You might forgive Musk for thinking this severance was not in the normal course of business. To him, a seperation involves a firing, spies and lawyers sent after terminated individuals, Twitter tirades against said individuals, and probably lawsuits filed.
You can see where he might be confused.
That’s all for this week, folks!
Comments on “Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt”
For all of it
Its interesting.
Our current crop of Politics even from the past, tends never to look at what is happening in Other parts of the world, and what regulations and laws are created.
But Now it seems ‘Monkey see, Monkey do’, Must be all the rage.
Much of this didnt start here. And We can even point to a few powerful people behind Some of this BS happening in our politics.
How in Hell can a group of people that are to support the Constitution and all the papers created for our Gov., Think that doing things Other ways will Work for The people.
Which group gave the 1st amendment to the corps? How many nations even consider doing that? I understand that the Big corps in the Middle east have allot of control in those countries. But even their Politics get pissed off at the corps. The Horrible thing is that Money used to Corupt those and this nation tends to be from the US Citizens. Why cant Our gov. see and understand this?
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You can’t “give the First Amendment to the corps”. You need to frame a Constitutionally sound argument as to why the First Amendment doesn’t apply to any sort of organization.
We’ll not, just for fun, how all other corporations, etc., have had First Amendment rights since forever, and has rarely been an issue until some corporations opened up a wide universe of convenient one-to-many avenues for speech. Which still exist. And are bloody amazingly transsformative and convenient.
Disclaimer: i’m a bit Jeffersonian about corporations (and governments) and yet i recognize this as a real thing.
Re: corporate political donations
Corps are allowed to donate politically in other countries too.
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I always wondered why trans people copy women’s fashions. You are rebelling against one stereotype, and then copying what someone else tells people they should look like.
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In general, trans people aren’t rebelling against a stereotype, they are “rebelling” against being treated differently than non-trans people, regardless of their choice in clothes. Clothes are in a way a reflection of how you identify yourself.
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I always wondered why trans people copy women’s fashions.
Because only trans women make up the ‘T’ in LGBT+’? Well, you and Hymen Rosan make up the ‘P’, ‘H’, ‘O’, ‘B’, ‘I’, and ‘C’ in ‘transphobic’.
Re: Re: fashion is just gross
No Im equally weirded by some of the things heterosexual women do to themselves in the name of being fashionable. Men do too. Why a tie? Its absurd. You do it to fit in. Because if you didnt people think you are wrong.
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Because we’re fabulous, and that’s something straight men will never be capable of achieving. You’re getting adapted out of the gene pool, you freaks.
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Fuck off, troll. I want to hear what real commenters have to say.
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You can continue to deny the oncoming paradigm shift all you want. The queer eyes are everywhere, you bigot.
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Given what you said in your original comment, the only bigot in this comments section is you. To reiterate what AC said, “Fuck off, troll. The real commenters are talking.”
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Straight men cannot be bigoted against. They’re the ones who have held the narrative for far longer than they deserve. Trans people like us, on the other hand, are biologically incapable of being bigots. If you don’t believe me, go ahead and claim that trans people can be bigoted and see how far that gets you.
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Right, just like a black person can’t be racist against an Asian person or a wheelchair user can’t pass judgement against an able-bodied autistic person for using the accessible facilities. As I said before, fuck off, bigot.
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Find a trans person and a straight male and see which is going to be called a bigot. It’s not going to be the trans person. It’s impossible.