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 an anonymous comment on our post about clarifying robots.txt in the age of AI crawlers:
As I understand it, the crux of the debate is that AI tools are not making bulk requests to servers. They’re making very limited requests to specific pages based on user actions. However, though limited in scope, this is still automated retrieval of web pages. The question whether robots.txt should (or does) apply to such requests is worth exploring.
Our second place winner for insightful this week is also the second place winner on the funny side. It’s a comment from That One Guy about the GOP’s ongoing insistence that speech they don’t like is censorship:
War is peace.
Slavery is freedom.
More speech is censorship.
Truly the modern GOP have learned from the best in their field.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with an anonymous comment about Tim Wu’s all-out attack on the First Amendment:
Isn’t one of the things you’re supposed to ask before you make a law, “What would the worst person I know be able to do with this power?”
Next, it’s Someone with a comment on our post about how Justice Alito’s views on speech shift according to who he wants to win:
I fixed the title for you
Justice Alito’s Views On All Cases Shift Depending On Who He Wants To Win.
He has been like this for a long time. The fact and law and reason do not matter, it is who he wants to win. Several dead/retired justices had said that several members of the court would figure out who they wanted to win first, and they try to back into a law or facts to support their person views.
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is Andrew R with another comment on that post, this time about Alito’s past warning that a case would be interpreted dangerously by future courts:
He was right about one thing, it didn’t take long for him to interpret it dangerously.
We’ve already had the second place winner above, so we’ll move straight on to editor’s choice, and another anonymous comment about Tim Wu:
An analogy
When I worked in a “customer service” capacity, we had a joke: “The job’s great, except for the customers.”
Tim is starting to sound that way.
“Free Speech is great, except for the speech.”
Finally, it’s tanj with a comment on our post about California forcing AT&T to continue servicing its taxpayer-subsidized copper connections:
Yet again
Tech Dirt keeps insisting that just because something was promised and paid for it should be provided.
That’s all for this week, folks!
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Tim Wu won’t forget how you betrayed him.
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Look, it’s Captain DARVO!
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Betrayal implies there was some oath of loyalty that was sworn. This isn’t feudal times (as much as MAGAland would like it to be). It’s not betrayal to call someone out for bad takes. Hell, it’s a service to point out politely that someone has gone off the rails. If Tim actually cares, he’d take it as a sign of the need for reflection.
Apropos "Anonymous Coward":
Ever wonder why it’s the superheroes rather than the supervillains who are wearing masks and hiding their identities?
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It’s quite simple, if you have to wonder about it you haven’t really thought it through.
Most superheroes also have a “normal” life on the side, revealing to the world their real identity invites reprisals from the supervillains on their friends and family. Superheroes on the other hand, doesn’t go after a supervillain’s family or friends if they happen to have those.
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Shows that Clark Kent really doesn’t give a shit about his nearest and dearest. All Superman does is wear a suit and a pair of glasses to hide his identity. Add in the fact that Clark is friends with Lex Luthor…
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And the Flash is buddies with all of his Rogues.
Though Flash’s Rogues are a bit of a wacky lot.
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Most superhero/villain stuff doesn’t actually make sense if we apply it to the real world and the whole thing with the glasses as a disguise birthed the trope “Clark Kenting” were even the flimsiest disguise befuddles everyone.
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“Ever wonder why it’s the superheroes rather than the supervillains who are wearing masks and hiding their identities?”
You are correct, Donald refuses to wear a mask and got covid as a result, almost died according to the reports.
Hold on a sec .. didn’t the joker wear a mask?
Darth Vader wore a mask and a helmet.
and what about Jason?
I don’t get it.
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Don’t forget: Batman wore the wrong kind of mask for the pandemic!
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Last winter I saw all kinds of people in ski masks out on the slopes. They were even wearing skis for a fast getaway.
Wait, so, does that make them superheroes or supervillains? (Or just regular vanilla?)
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This finnish company telia had an adverticement trying to sell internet access. A prominent reason to buy the net was because of a horse displayed next to the internet connection.
I obviously wanted the horse, so i subscribed to their internet. Got uplink upgraded from 20 Mbps to 900Mbps so my web page speed was improved alot and my internet using friends are now happy with the web page speed. But they forgot to deliver the horse.
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forgot to link the ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd8QyZBo1bs&ab_channel=TeliaFinland
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Given that we are talking about telcoms, I’d say they wanted to tell you that the ad is full of horse crap.
On the other hand,
900Mbps uplink speed (or even downlink or whatever) is not exactly the kind of crap that U.S. customers are used to getting.
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lol Tero, don’t lie. You’ve cited multiple times you live 15 miles away from the nearest human, and you’ve also personally stated that everyone is a pirate for not contributing to the Meshpage project. The idea that you have friends is either an outright fabrication, or an insult to friends, or both.
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Which has nothing to do with anything. When a company pledges to offer internet to certain locales and refuses to upgrade the services there, they are obligated to maintain that service.
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In the UK, Lloyds Bank has a herd of black horses in their adverts, and I’m pretty sure you’re the only one that would be stupid enough to open an account in full expectation of a horsebox pulling up at your house to deliver livestock.
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Commies!
That’s almost as antithetical to modern capitalism as insisting that just because something was provided, it should be paid for, as promised.
You’re saying that we don’t have to pay the ISPs anymore? That’s fantastic!