Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Mithras with a comment about the “Patriot Reporter” and his claims about his wealth:

$5 million a month…

But he needs a sideline as a realtor?

That’s really making me doubt the $5 million a month.

In second place, it’s That One Guy with a comment about the FOP police union endorsing Donald Trump:

‘We are staunchly against criminals and criminal actions! … that aren’t on our side.’

Nothing like a union for law enforcement officially endorsing a convicted felon for office to give away the game on how much they actually care about upholding the law and how they are super-duper against those that break it.

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with an anonymous comment about the problem with government plans to take money from tech companies and give it to journalists:

This is the flaw in the entire concept. Having the government, any government, distributing money to support “journalists” is an open invitation to every kind of grift. “Big guys” have a staff of writers, and access to experts, who can write elegant proposals demonstrating why they can put the money to “best use,” but their definition of best use is likely to be their pocketbook. The journalists we’ve lost are the crusaders, those who diligently follow specific government and business activities and courageously expose fraud, waste, special interests, and stupidity. No government agency is going to support those annoying troublemakers!

Next, it’s another anonymous comment, this time on our post about a David Bowie song being removed from Alan Wake, in response to another comment about how this kind of thing is expected:

Sure. But it should never be a thing in the first place.

Imagine if to rerelease any Queen song, because of contract, that they had to have Bowie’s part’s taken out.

We do not do this for other type of work other than music either. CG, video game art, art in general, sound effects even, and so on do not have this idiotic problem.

Over on the funny side, our first place winner is That One Guy again, with a comment about Mark Zuckerberg’s vow to stop apologizing to bad faith politicians:

Five minutes later…

Zuckerberg: I am done apologizing to bad faith actors for things that aren’t actually my fault or the fault of those that work for me!

Politician: Boo!

Zuckerberg: Ah! I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I promise I’ll do whatever you want me to and get right on fixing whatever you want me to which I’m sure you’re right in blaming me for, just don’t do the mean face again!

In second place, it’s an anonymous comment about the call for warning labels on social media:

I don’t see why you would oppose this idea.

They put Surgeon General labels on cigarettes and everyone stopped smoking almost immediately.

They started requiring nutrition labels on food and poof! not only did obesity disappear, so did all those unhealthy fast food restaurants.

They put explicit language warnings on Rap albums and that whole genre of music folded up and found real jobs.

Warning labels are magic! If anything might be double-plus ungood, just add a warning label and problem solved.

For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out Nick-B and another comment about the Alan Wake song removal:

David Bowie would NEVER have written the song Space Oddity (1969) if he knew that a game released in 2010 would be allowed to have the exact same song playing over the same end credits 14 years later.
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Finally, it’s one more comment from That One Guy, summing up what happened with Utah’s protect-the-kids law:

Cox: We’ll see you in court!

NetChoice: Yes, you will.

Cox: Wait, no!

That’s all for this week, folks!