Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

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Once again this week, it looks like one comment took home the gold medal in both categories. And it wasn’t even close, even if it was on a story that was just published late Friday morning. So step right up Dark Helmet and claim your prize for both most insightful and funniest according to folks here, on your comment about Redskins owner Dan Snyder and his complaint that a photograph of him with scribbled devil markings on it was somehow “anti-semitic”:

Ah, I see. Dan Snyder objects to the to squigly lines drawing devil horns and a goatee (by cracky) on his image because they’re anti-Semetic. Dan Snyder, you see, is against images and depictions of racist and culturally insensitive nature.

Hey, fuckhead. You own an NFL football team based in the nation’s capital called the REDSKINS! Are you kidding me? It’s an insensitive term with a stereotypical logo of an American Indian, the gall of which is only supplanted by the fact that the team is located in the home city of the governing body that raped and pillaged their people? Who the hell are you crappin’?

How about some Irish immigrant owning a football team called the New York Porchmonkeys (I’m just bringing it back)? Or that Saratoga Slants? Maybe the Talahassee Towelheads? Portland Pollocks? Ooooh, the Memphis Micks (that one is close to my heart)?

Way to be a hypocritical polesmoker there, D-bag….

I almost feel like we shouldn’t even bother looking at other comments after that one, but just to satisfy everyone’s curiosity, the next two on the most insightful list were both short and sweet, so I’ll include them both. The first was a comment on Egypt’s decision to shut down the internet, where an anonymous commenter made a simple point:

If your government shuts down the internet, shut down your government.

And, in discussing the study financed by NBC Universal that showed that the amount of “piracy” online was driven, in large part, by their own failure to provide legitimate alternatives, Marcus Carab pointed out a key point that is so frustrating to so many of us. In responding to another interesting comment about the amount of data in the Library of Congress, Marcus stated the unfortunate truth:

That quote highlights another thing worth noting here: we now live in and age where it’s technologically trivial to have the entire library of congress in your room, and yet thanks to copyright, none of us do.

Over on the “funny” side was a rather wry comment from anonymous user, poking a bit of fun at the people who believe that kicking people off the internet will lead to increased music sales. So, when Egypt shut off its internet access, that commenter asked:

I wonder how much music sales went up during this period.

And in third place, thublihnk responded to Feargal Sharkey’s complaint that thinking about increasing fair use in the UK was nothing more than “intellectual masturbation” by putting it into the appropriate context:

I know sometimes when I’m alone in my apartment I like to turn the lights down low, maybe light some incense and just think about the proper way to treat intellectual property in relation to content creation and distribution in the interconnected age of today.

Thanks for another week of fantastic commentary.

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