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.