Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is DisgruntledAnonymous with a comment on our post about Elon Musk seizing people’s Twitter accounts to promote Donald Trump:

This just solidified my decision to delete and deactivate my accounts (primary and burner) on that site. I would advise those who haven’t fallen into the thrall of 45 to do the same.

In second place, it’s Stephen T. Stone with another comment on that post, this time in response to a commenter who thought they were pointing something out which had in fact been covered:

Someone didn’t read past the “Claim” part of the article.

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from Sayyadina responding to another commenter who objected to our post about Musk’s free Starlink for Hurricane Helene victims not being free, and also raised some nonsense about FEMA:

1. Offering a service for free but charging for the hardware required to enable that service is a de facto charge for the service. Entire internet scams used to be built on this exact move.
2. FEMA “interfered” because unauthorized civilian pilots were flooding the airspace in defiance of FAA regulations and creating an extremely hazardous environment that could’ve caused even more death and destruction. They were protecting people, as they’re supposed to do.

What a shit apologist you are.

Next, it’s a comment from Thad about why Amazon Prime gets away with being such a terrible streaming service:

Cable TV didn’t come with two-day shipping.

I would wager that the vast majority of Prime subscribers are there for the shipping perks, and Prime Video is a secondary concern at best. I suspect that grants Amazon more leeway to enshittify its streaming service than its competitors that only offer video streaming.

Over on the funny side, our first place winner is Toom1275 with another comment about Elon Musk seizing the @America account:

“Lazy African immigrant steals from honest hardworking American!”

In second place, it’s Thad with a comment about Cloudflare’s total and absolute victory against a patent troll:

Cloudflare Destroys Another Patent Troll, Gets Its Patents Released To The Public, and Hears the Lamentations of Their Women

For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with an anonymous comment about the state lawsuits against TikTok and the history of “save the children” moral panics:

Hmm. Perhaps these lawsuits are retroactive evidence that the sugar cereals do cause behavioral issues as evidenced by these lawsuits being filed. After all, there’s a strong probability that the people involved actually grew up on those cereals.

Finally, it’s tanj with a comment about the failure of Musk’s “Twitter no longer exists” defense in Australia:

It might have worked if he was wearing Groucho Glasses.

That’s all for this week, folks!