Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
from the so-sayeth dept
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!
Comments on “Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt”
And it’s extremely disappointing that Hollywood has learned nothing
Actually, Hollywood has learned something. This time they’re gonna shove their copyright maximalism down our throat, weather we want it or not. This time they’re not gonna let some namby-pamby protests stop them.
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That at the END of their ownership they will just Burn the tapes like Nixon did.
And it will scare groups that If we reduce the time of Copyrights, BACK to 20 years, we wont see anything from the past.
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Except they’ll break the internet while not actually stopping copyright violations. Those dedicated to sharing files will just create a new internet with blackjack and hookers… They actually already have and just more people will be drawn to the dark web. There will be Mastodon and Lemmy posts about how to create or access the new pirate sites and servers. New versions of old technology concepts will pop up, with the next generation of what were previously IRC, listserv, and ftp dump sites run on raspberry pi clusters, sitting right beside uncensored ai deepfake porn, fentanyl drop shippers, and crypto scams. Giving in to copyright maximalists only makes the web darker and more dangerous. They can’t whack every mole.
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They don’t need to. The darknet already exists.
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Did you stop reading at that sentence…?
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Did you not read your own comment? “People will make new internet. People will use existing internet.” Which is it?
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So you’re saying you didn’t understand the reference.
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Uhhh, the protests weren’t exactly aimed towards Hollywood. It was more so on the legislators that tried rushing through SOPA. But once the Blackout happened, that gave legislators extreme cold feet and its momentum was all but sapped. If something like SOPA can be stopped before, it can be stopped again.
The only silver lining is that there hasn’t been anything specifically SOPA-related released… yet. It’ll be a while until we heard more of this “plan.” Until then, keep an eye open.
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Gas corp in the area has heavy authorization on signing in.
I click a button to be remembered for 90 days, knowing that Im only going to connect 3 times.
I suggested to them, as they only TAKE money and not GIVE money, That they let anyone into my account to PAY IT OFF.
They dont like that idea.
AT LEAST HERE, I use it every day and it lasts? 7 days?
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Peak neo-Marxist degeneracy: claiming that it’s both made-up and transphobic to oppose the for-profit chemical castration and physical mutilation of vulnerable children and young people (by gender ghouls)!!
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..hallucinated no mentally competent human, ever.
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WPATH Files
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And there you admit I’m right as usual.
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LOL
Maybe one day you will watch video regarding those files and see just how wrong you are.
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And what do those files have in common with the topic being discussed?
It’s sad that even the experts in their field can turn… into zealots and breaking the Hippocratic Oath, but why do you need to use that to act like a transphobic murderer in the comments?
Again, what does anything your shitty little harassment campaign have in relation to the topic at hand?
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No need to murder trans people, since they’re so mentally-ill, deranged, sick, deluded that upwards of 40% try to kill themselves anyway!!
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No, that’s attributable to people like you who make their lives a living hell simply for being different. Non-trans people who are bullied also experience higher rates of suicidal ideation.
Hello, it’s you. You’re the problem.
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Your attempted emotional blackmail doesn’t resonate with me.
Trans-identifying people try to kill themselves so often because they’re mentally-ill, deranged freaks.
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Incorrect. 40% of trans people kill themselves because it’s their only escape from the real mentally disordered, deranged freaks like you.
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I wouldn’t attempt to emotionally blackmail you. If you were capable of empathy, you wouldn’t hold such a position to begin with. And you’re not worth attempting to reform. I’m just correcting the record since we already know you’re the problem.
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I copy pasta it when I see toom pasting his 1 line show
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Here you go.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/fact-check-216-instances-of-factual
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Hahahahaha I don’t think that citing a deranged biological male who wants other people to believe he’s actually a woman (which he’s obviously not) makes for a reliable source!!!!
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But we should take the word of a bigoted asshole on the internet? I do hope your stupidity isn’t contagious.
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And yet you keep asking us to believe that your totally not a closet case…
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Ever consider looking for a new wolf to cry about?
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The far left doesn’t exist.
If there’s leftists insulting you, it’s because your kind have deserved it, and it’s been long overdue.
Go eat a bag of dicks.
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Gender Ghouls is the name of my favourite all girl Rob Zombie cover band.
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Is Gender Ghouls a band in Amazon Prime’s new series, Fallout?
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I take it then that “for-profit chemical castration and physical mutilation of vulnerable children and young people” (by straight religious republicans) is OK in your book.
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Peak retro-chauvinist gaslighting hypocrisy: claiming that it’s both rational and sincere to rant about unrelated topics, invented boogeymen, 4chan myths, and troll campaigns out of your concern for people whose existence you have declined to acknowledge.
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Also claiming that someone made a comment unrelated to the article in question, completely missing where the comment makes a point about the article in question after consistently accusing others of lacking reading comprehension. See Mamba’s first comment in this thread for an example.
I guess Cat_Daddy getting such a high amount of votes for ‘insightful’ can’t happen all that often, going by the fact that he replied to an AC pointing out that SOPA seeks to block websites based on their users’ infringements by pointing out that it’s the users of the websites committing the infringements rather than the websites themselves. He then goes on to classify fair use as a “nuisance” because he obviously doesn’t know nuance.