Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

It’s a big week for anonymous commenters. We start out with our first place winner on the insightful side, an anonymous reply to an irrelevant comment:

Speaking of bad actors, will you stop acting like your pet issue justifies spamming unrelated comments?

In second place, it’s an anonymous comment about those who pledge to protect free speech and “fight wokeness”:

Well, which is it? Protect free speech, or fight wokeness? Wokeness is entirely expressed by protected free speech, right? Wouldn’t want to discriminate against a viewpoint, would we?

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with another anonymous comment along the same lines:

If you keep suing people and they keep citing the First Amendment against you, you aren’t a free speech supporter.

Next, it’s yet another anonymous comment, this time about the Florida police department that is ending its predictive policing program:

There are two big wins here:

First, the admission that the program violated constitutional rights. In so very many settlements, the defendant admits no guilt. This is not that. There’s no walking that admission back.

Second, no NDA. The settlement is public. Everyone gets to see it.

Ultimately, this means that if the Sheriff tries to do something like this again, when they get to court the second time, it’ll be discussion of damages, not whether it’s legal.

And because it’s all public, if someone else tries this particular brainfart, there’s the public settlement to point to.

Over on the funny side, the anonymous streak continues. In first place, it’s a comment about the pathetic attempts to connect the shooting of the United Health CEO to violent video games:

Just wait until someone realizes that Luigi has ALSO played… CLUE!

Just think… Colonel Mustard could actually have killed Brian Thompson in the Kitchen with the revolver… and you, Mr. Green, COULD BE THE NEXT VICTIM!

Don’t get me started on Monopoly… Mr. Moneybags’ days are numbered!

In second place, it’s a general response to incoming FTC chair Andrew Ferguson’s plans:

With all due respect to Norm McDonald, this guy right here is the real Turd Ferguson.

For editor’s choice on the funny side, the fact is there was quite a dearth of funny comments this week, and not much to choose from! Plus, it’d be nice to finish out the streak and make this week’s winners all anonymous. So to that end, we’ll limit ourselves to just one editor’s choice, with one more anonymous comment about the NBC segment on violent video games:

They forgot to blame “a lack of ‘traditional morality'(shorthand for Christianity)” and the Church of Satan for this?

Come on NBC, your pearl clutching stories used to have crazy insane drugs and blood sacrifices!

Slipping.

That’s all for this week folks!