Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

from the talk-up dept

This week, our first place winner on the insightful facet is Stephen T. Stone with a response to a different commenter claiming they “occasionally post the censorship highlights of the week”:

No, you do not. You whine about “conservative views” becoming “censored” from Twitter, then you disappear (which I expect you to do now) when requested about the exact and specific “conservative views” to which you’re referring. You also vanish anytime asked One particular Straightforward Issue (“Do you believe that the government really should have the legal correct to compel any privately owned interactive website assistance into internet hosting legally shielded speech that the owners/operators of reported services do not want to host?”) to date, I’ve hardly ever gotten a straight indeed-or-no response out of you on that point.

You want to do a travel-by complaint about conservatives currently being “censored” on social media, but when pressed on the information, you up and vanish like a fart in the wind. Once⁠—just as soon as!⁠—we’d all like you to stick around and answer our thoughts so we can have the discussion you always say you want.

But you are likely to be a coward and run as normal, simply because you know that most of us common commenters can out-argue you and your fellow trolls every working day of the week. And simply because you know that trustworthy answers to our inquiries will do you no favors in terms of credibility⁠—especially since we can usually connection back to your responses and maintain you to account for them.

So run alongside, little one. The grown people are speaking now.

In next place, it is James Burkhardt with a response to the strategy that Netflix’s the latest nickel-and-diming is just a make a difference of the corporation seeking to get paid out for its providers:

I was likely to occur here to post this as a reminder for men and women who would make the exact same remark they often make, but I was not rapidly plenty of, so you’ll do.

The quick reaction: I was less than the perception the regular charge I pay for Netflix was spending Netflix for its expert services. What am I having to pay for?

The extended reaction: I have a 4 display netflix subscription. I could engage in netflix 24/7 in my house on 4 simultaneous streams and it would incur no extra price on my component. But if I go on a enterprise vacation and each I and the other members of my family want to enjoy a couple hrs of netflix, my membership prices 3 excess pounds a thirty day period.

This charge is not about Netflix “…[getting] compensated for its services…”. The payment is absolutely disconnected from the monetary stress it supposedly generates. If it is successful to operate 4 US streams concurrently 24/7 to the similar house, its successful to operate 4 US streams simultaneously 24/7 irrespective of geographic spot inside the US.

Additionally, as you glance at pricing choices you see netflix forces me to pay out for 4 simultaneous streams even if I only need 3. Forcing me to pay out for a lot more streams and denying me the means to capitalize on what I paid for (4 simultaneous streams) is not about finding paid out, its about deliberately forcing me to fork out a lot more for less.

I experienced no concern with Netflix cracking down on simultaneous streams back again in 2012. That was a sensible determination, and pricing which makes it possible for me to pay out for only 1 stream and pay back much more for 2 or 4 simultaneous streams is fantastic customer choice choice. An additional $3 for Netflix to be out there on my lunch break is not.

And given that homes are progressively not single family members but shared spaces of older people as living expenditures improve but wages do not, The very likely hood that a home could conclusion up, briefly, with considerable geographic separation because of to not taking joint vacations past the common difficulties of perform vacation that would depart the rest of a one spouse and children home at property, indicates this policy would routinely call for non-password-sharing homes to nonetheless shell out the $3 password sharing rate. Mainly because this isn’t about password-sharing homes breaking the principles.

And that prospects me to the place that Techdirt has been highlighting the shift in Netflix messaging not simply just because it is anti-buyer, but for the reason that it is a true time scenario analyze of a company responding to fiscal problems in a way that in the previous has lead to a loss of life spiral and how that is currently being induced by the marketplace and capitalist demands.

For editor’s decision on the insightful side, we start out out with Anathema Gadget and a reaction to someone claiming online privateness issues are overblown:

So, no concerns about a person tracking your time period, or your pregnancy, or your changeover, or your movements, or your buys, due to the fact the ability of the condition is on your aspect, not towards you?

Enable me guess – you are a cisgendered white person. If you actually think in the latest interval of background, your on the web actions and purchases and exercise won’t at any time be employed in opposition to you, you will have to be in that strong minority.

The final human being on earth I want owning, let by yourself using my data is Elon Musk, and that goes for any organization he owns. I’m not pleased about Zuckerberg either, but at the very least we know what the small bastard is up to, and wherever he stands. Musk is a free cannon.

Up coming, it’s ah Clem clarifying the idea that social media platforms could deal with Texas’s insane new regulation by supplying a specific Texas method:

Properly, providing a “Texas View” would seem to be to run afoul of the statute:

(a) A social media platform could not censor a user, a user’s expression, or a user’s capacity to get the expression of an additional human being based mostly on…
(3) a user’s geographic place in this point out or any element of this point out.

So, the only way out appears to be to have no small business presence in Texas, and even then the organization likely will get hauled into court docket over and in excess of all over again.

Above on the amusing side, our initially place winner is an anonymous remark about a Malibu Media blaming Chicago for its authorized woes:

She blames Chicago? The town? Maybe the musical? The band? Possibly the band.

In 2nd position, it’s Rocky with a reaction to the declare that Twitter really should ban Joe Biden for being incoherent if it’s going to ban Donald Trump:

I’ll just go away this right here as a rebuttal:

“Look, acquiring nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT good genes, very great genes, Okay, very sensible, the Wharton College of Finance, very fantastic, quite intelligent —you know, if you are a conservative Republican, if I had been a liberal, if, like, Ok, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m 1 of the smartest people today everywhere in the world—it’s accurate!—but when you are a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always get started off: Went to Wharton, was a great student, went there, went there, did this, crafted a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, due to the fact we’re a minor disadvantaged—but you search at the nuclear deal, the thing that truly bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful my uncle stated that to me many, several a long time in the past, the electricity and that was 35 a long time back he would explain the energy of what’s likely to occur and he was right—who would have believed?), but when you seem at what is likely on with the 4 prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have reported it’s all in the messenger fellas, and it is fellas simply because, you know, they really don’t, they have not figured that the women of all ages are smarter suitable now than the adult males, so, you know, it’s gonna get them about yet another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are fantastic negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.”

Portion of a marketing campaign speech presented by Donald Trump in July 2015

For editor’s selection on the amusing side, we get started out with an nameless response to the concept that political affiliation must be included into civil rights regulations:

So you’re heading to make ‘asshole’ a guarded class?

Ultimately, it’s That One Man with a remark about Elon Musk’s strategy to correct Twitter by only moderating tweets that are “wrong and bad”:

Nicely holy crap, how arrive no-one considered of that ahead of? All you will need to do is get rid of the lousy tweets and leave the excellent types up. With this sort of brilliance on screen no surprise so numerous men and women are enamored by Musk and assume he’s amazing, who could have at any time thought of a thing that innovative but him?

That is all for this 7 days, folks!