Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, we’ve got a double-win on the insightful side for MrWilson. In first place, it’s a comment about walling off the open internet to stop AI:
The thing is, everyone is a victim, not just the sites getting hammered. The value of the internet is its openness. You can always route around one obstacle to your own education and freedom by finding another path, but if it all starts to get walled off, the utility and thus the freedom goes down. It’s important not to kill the internet to “save” it.
Aegrescit medendo.
And in second place, it’s a comment about the US Open telling broadcasters not to broadcast Trump being booed:
Jeb Bush: “Please clap.”
Trump: “Erase any record that I am loathed.”
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with another comment on that story, this time from DisgruntledAnonymous:
Once again, legacy media platforms are complicit while independent platforms are doing the job said legacy platforms should’ve been doing. Says it all doesn’t it.
Next, it’s Rocky with a comment about the Supreme Court’s shadow docket games:
A ruling with no explanation is at best law by fiat, at worst it’s just plain ignoring the law.
The whole “difficult to reach a consensus” means you document in painstaking detail how consensus or a majority was reached, using “difficult” as an excuse why there is no explanation means it wasn’t difficult at all since it seems to me that the decision was predetermined.
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is Stephen T. Stone with a joke that probably won’t make sense unless you go read the thread and the joke about open windows in Russia that it’s in reply to:
See, this is why people should switch to Linux. 🙃
In second place, it’s an anonymous response to some speculation about how many times this administration has accidentally leaked info to Russia:
Hey, the request from “Boris Goodenough” to join the group chat seemed legit at the time.
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with a comment from John Hancock about the notion of banning everyone who mocks Charlie Kirk from “all platforms forever”:
holy shit really? it took me a year and a half to delete my facebook back in 2016. i still haven’t figured out how to get rid of my amazon account.
so all i have to do now, is offend this bozo, by talking smack about charlie ‘i fucked around and i found out’ kirk, then i get that done for free? for all platforms?
how do i sign up? do i need to go to twitter for this or one of those echo chambers like ‘truth’ social?
Finally, it’s an anonymous comment that repurposes a classic joke to look at all the SCOTUS nonsense:
SCOTUS: We’re going to bring America back to its original, constitutional roots.
LOWER COURTS: Like establishing Congress as the main power in government, given its Article I status?
SCOTUS: LOL no…no not those roots
LOWER COURTS: Oh, so protecting the Bill of Rights and its separation of Church and State, and protecting people from unlawful search and seizure?
SCOTUS: Haha no not those roots either
LOWER COURTS: So … which roots, exactly?
SCOTUS: Oh, you know the ones.
That’s all for this week, folks!
Comments on “Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt”
Internet?
The reality That they are Creating the Current Situation of HOW our government IS/Has been for years. On the Internet.
Its NOT what you think, Maybe.
Consider it as a Paranoid Control addict.
Honestly, I think all the inferior courts should just ignore anything SCOTUS says/does if it takes unexplained actions or plays shadow docket games. I mean, SCOTUS can complain all they want but… I don’t think they can really do anything else to the inferior courts? I mean, not really, anyway. Their power rests on persuasiveness, legitimacy, all that. .But they’ve deliberately done every possible thing to undermine their own legitimacy. So even if SCOTUS launched some kind of investigation into the lower courts to get the judges impeached, I could very easily see that backfiring on them really badly, given that I think at least one of them isn’t even qualified to be a justice to begin with.
Re: 'How dare you follow the law and legal precedent as written?!'
Nah, if the lower courts want to really twist the knife all they need to do is what SCOTUS refuses to, namely follow the law and legal precedent, and keep ignoring the ‘hints’ from SCOTUS that the law doesn’t matter any more since all that matters is giving the regime anything it demands.
So long as SCOTUS remains equal parts corrupt and cowardly it’s not like they’d have any grounds to object to the lower courts following the law and applying the legal precedent that’s been laid down, so they’d be stuck throwing tantrums over the courts refusal to play along and ‘suggesting’ that the lower courts follow the rules they refuse to elaborate on.
Re: Re:
Until lower court justices start getting shot because Dear Leader said that someone should do something about all these activist judges following precedent instead of his whims.
Kunta Kinte!
Yeah, those roots.