Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

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from the who-said-that dept

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous comment on our post about how “neutrality” and “free speech” become excuses for bigotry:

You can’t be neutral about bigotry

“Neutrality” is for elements of policy, like “What should be the top tax rate” or “should we build a new interstate highway” or “Which candidate should be Mayor.”

You can’t be “neutral” about someone’s right to exist, or the idea that people of the wrong ethnicity aren’t people or can’t be trusted under any circumstances.

You can be neutral about who should be the next Mayor of NYC. It’s fine if your employees publicly disagree, even.

But it’s not fine to say a candidate “comes from a culture that lies about everything. It’s literally a virtue to lie if it advances his Islamist agenda. The West will learn this lesson the hard way.”

In second place, it’s MrWilson with a comment on our post about Bari Weiss wielding exactly that tyranny of false balance:

Conservatives are the only ones not expected to do any self-reflection or critical thinking. Shooting from the hip with your gut feeling based on your echo chamber brainwashing experience is all the truthiness you need. Everyone else is responsible for politely correctly their misperceptions while also no offending them and maybe also just changing reality to suit their preferences.

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with Thad and another comment about Weiss’s reign at CBS:

It’s exactly the same justification Bezos used for neutering the Post. People perceive bias that needs to be corrected, and therefore the right thing to do is assume that’s true and correct for it rather than interrogate it in any way.

Next, it’s Stephen T. Stone with a comment about how the peddlers of “neutrality” should admit what they are:

Even Elon Musk, eternal 12-year-old though he may be, decided to effectively own Twitter becoming a Nazi bar under his ownership. Dude loves to rail against “wokeness” and shit himself, and that new plan to have Grok replace existing Twitter algorithms will most likely benefit users and speech that Musk prefers. If a shithead like him can own up to running a Nazi bar, those other cowards have no excuses.

Over on the funny side, our first place winner is Thad again, this time with a reply quoting another comment about “balance”:

“I understand the criticism of false balance. But”

Perfect; no notes.

In second place, it’s Nathan F with a comment about the Baltimore Ravens blaming losses on players playing video games:

Well.. at least they weren’t playing any version of Mario Party, otherwise the whole team would hate each other and not actually be a team.

For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with a grim anonymous joke about Trump’s latest chilling comments:

“We’re going to kill them. They’re going to be, like dead.”

I mean, what Nobel Peace Prize hopeful hasn’t used that exact phrase before?

Finally, for a change of subject, it’s Pixelation with a comment about the wave of web browsers with integrated AI chat bots:

Sigh

This is a great idea, just like connecting home appliances to the internet…

That’s all for this week, folks!