Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

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from the so-you-say dept

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Thad with a comment about Palantir’s general creepiness:

I mean, yeah, the name of their company is basically “I read Lord of the Rings and wanted to be Sauron.”

In second place, it’s MrWilson with a comment about Arkansas’s latest failed attempt to pass an unconstitutional social media law:

This is another one of those scenarios where it functionally doesn’t matter if the sponsors/authors of such bills are constitutionally illiterate or maliciously anti-constitutional. The result is the same. It’s at least performative for voters and campaign donors that you’re “doing something,” but if it passes, and it doesn’t get struck down immediately, and it has confusing and contradictory language, that’s a feature, not a bug. If the social media companies can’t figure out how to legally offer their services to children, they’ll opt out of doing so entirely—the same way the demise of Section 230 would require shutting down user input to avoid massive lawsuit damages. That’s a win for authoritarian conservatives who want to control narratives and legitimize only their preferred propaganda outlets. Notice that no censorial conservative legislator writes has their lobbyists write a law targeting Truth Social’s practices.

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with an anonymous comment about a certain type of person that’s well-represented in the Palantir crowd:

They all think they’re John Galt personified

I expect everyone to read “Atlas Shrugged” when they’re a teenager.

And by the time they’re in their early or mid 20’s, I expect them to have acquired the intellectual maturity to figure out that it’s absolute bullshit from cover to cover.

Those who are incapable of this tend to try to use it as an instruction manual and cast themselves as saviors of the people, fearless leaders whose lofty goals must triumph, blah blah blah. As the best line in a series of bad movies observes: “There are always men like you.”

Next, it’s another comment from Thad, this time about Netgear’s mysterious exemption to the Trump FCC’s router ban:

Is it bribes?

I bet it’s bribes.

Over on the funny side, our first place winner is an anonymous reply to a tiresome rant that accused Techdirt of falling for propaganda:

Are you a vampire?

Because damn, that’s a complete lack of self-reflection you have there.

In second place, it’s another anonymous comment, this time about the gross camaraderie on display at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner:

I imagine their laughter sounds like a ‘collaboration’ of turkey noises.

‘Gobbels Gobbels Gobbels!’

For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with a comment from dfbomb about Minnesota manners:

Ah, I see, a non-native. Let me explain local culture and language:

Much like a Hawaiian “Aloha”, in Minnesotan “Fuck ICE” is both “hello” and “goodbye.”

Finally, it’s one last comment from Thad, this time about the Fifth Circuit ruling that Texas’s ten commandments law is constitutional:

Sounds like the Satanic Temple’s time to shine.

That’s all for this week, folks!