Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson with a comment about MAGA doing things “for the children”:

If conservatives stopped thinking about children so much, the children would be better off and much safer.

In second place, it’s an anonymous comment inserting a little optimism into the fear that Section 230 is not long for this world:

Keep in mind that a lot of commenters here did just the same at the 25th anniversary. (Myself included, but not publicly.) All is not yet lost.

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with the comment that sparked the first place winner above, which was actually a reply to Heart of Dawn‘s comment listing some examples:

Between this, Epstein and his cohorts, being anti-vax and anti-science, doing nothing about gun control, preventing queer kids from learning about themselves and getting support, the abolishment of the Department of Education- when these people “think of the children” it’s in the most cruel and callous way possible.

Next, it’s a comment from Citizen about the 5th circuit ruling that only citizens get due process rights:

Catch-22?

So if ICE grabs me and whisks me off to a detention center in Texas, how exactly would I go about proving my citizenship and getting released? According to ICE in this hypothetical scenario, I’m not a citizen, and according to the Fifth Circuit, that means I have no due process rights, meaning I can’t contest ICE’s claim, correct? Unless I’m missing something here, in this hypothetical scenario, any citizen grabbed by mistake–or, God forbid, grabbed by “mistake”–can only be released if ICE chooses to admit that they’re a citizen.

Over on the funny side, our first place winner is Mars42 with a comment about the disastrous data leak by an AI toy company:

I have always been told that the “S” in IOT stands for security.

In second place, it’s an anonymous comment from one of several people who were not a fan of a guest post from R Street this week:

How do we flag an article for being trolling/spam?

For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with another anonymous comment, this time on our post about RFK Jr. apparently lying to congress about his 2019 trip to Samoa:

Maybe it will save time to just note when the US government tells the truth

Finally, it’s Thad with a quip on our post about NBC hiding the crowd reaction that JD Vance garnered at the Winter Olympics:

Fake boos.

That’s all for this week, folks!