Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous piece-by-piece reply to another comment about the reporter who was suspended from ExTwitter hours after publishing an article about it:

“In other words, he either bot boosted an article about botting, or else the botting services are giving him a freebie.”

You need to up your reading comprehension, dude.

See: Séamas O’Reilly: I criticised ‘free speech absolutist’ Elon Musk’s X. My account was suspended where your 75% figure comes from.

“Five minutes since I’d posted that article on Twitter, 75% of the replies I’d received had themselves been spam bots trying to sell fake shite to my followers.”

Not something beneficial for O’Reilly, no matter how you spin it. And describing self-interest on the part of the bot runners as “a freebie” is like calling #GamerGate “constructive criticism”.

In second place, it’s Amazing Rando with a comment about ExTwitter and regulatory compliance:

That’s why it’s so important to have a team, maybe call them Trust & Safety or Compliance to keep you out of this sort of trouble!

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we’ve got a pair of comments about Wired’s recent fact-deficient attack on Section 230, and attacks on Section 230 in general. First, it’s an anonymous one:

Has anybody else noted that the hinted at subtext of all these anti 230 rants is: ‘The internet should be full of opinions that I like, and those that I dislike should be removed’. or ‘How dare you stop me from harassing people by telling them how wrong they are’.

Next, it’s That One Guy with a similar point:

A most telling absence

And the ‘There are no honest and/or reality-based arguments against 230’ streak remains unbroken since it made it into law.

It’s so strange, if the law really was as terrible as it’s critics want people to believe it is you’d think by now they’d have come up with at least one good argument against it that isn’t based upon misconceptions or flat out lies…

Over on the funny side, our first place winner is MrWilson with a response to our post about the cop who got in a fight with an acorn:

Just more anti-police hate speech from Tim. That acorn was dangerous and after it saw what happened to the back window of the vehicle, it’ll think twice about scarin’ the bajeezus out of that there brave deputy. Bet you wouldn’t be so brave as to unload a clip when a violent acorn comes for you!

Acorns Can Assault Badges!

In second place, it’s smb with a reply to a comment praising Musk and denying reality:

You forgot: “XTwitter is better and more popular than ever!”

For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with a response from Stephen T. Stone to a comment speculating about the reasons for ExTwitter’s deletion of a reporter’s account:

If Elon wants to ban Twitter accounts that make him (and his run as owner of Twitter) look bad, he should start with his own.

Finally, it’s That One Guy again, replying to a comment that did say “ExTwitter is better than ever”:

Not the brag you think it is

‘Since the local chapter of the KKK started hanging out at the bar I go to it’s been better than ever!’

That’s all for this week, folks!