from the so-you-say dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Bloof with a comment about Wikipedia banning its co-founder:
Guy was one of many people involved in the start of Wikipedia, left in a snit to start rival project after rival project more in line with his personal vision, each dying a death because his vision doesn’t make for a useful website with a thriving community. After these sites rotted on the vine, he decided to do return, contribute nothing worthwhile for years and right wing media tours to help signal boost right wing attempts to attack the site because they won’t let them hijack the site the way they have everything else.
He’s the intellectual equivalent of a J6er, he openly tried to do a coup, got punished because the rules should be applied equally regardless of political beliefs, and expects sympathy, only there’s no Trump to wave the get out of consequences free card for him.
In second place, it’s That One Guy with a simple response to ICE rebutting Nazi allegations by going full Gestapo:
Someone doth protest too much
If not nazi, why nazi shaped?
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from Whoever about how speech laws designed to protect the powerless get abused by the powerful:
Another example
In the UK, the wealthy and powerful are able to get “Superinjunctions” to prevent speech, and, significantly, even the existence of the injunction cannot be disclosed.
Combined with strict libel laws (even truth is not an absolute case in the UK — the case of George Galloway against the Daily Telegraph showed this), the powerful in the UK can be used to restrict speech that criticizes them.
Next, it’s Stephen T. Stone with a comment about the FCC claiming the First Amendment allows it to ban porn:
Porn is, was, and always will be the canary in the censorship coal mine. Censors count on people being too embarassed about defending porn to stop censorship. If they take even the most innocuous pornography away from you—I’m talking Playboy pinups here—and you do nothing about it because “who wants to defend smut”, every other kind of speech is on the table. This really is a “first they came for” situation, so if you’re not willing to openly defend porn as protected speech, the least you can do is not openly support the censors when they use your triggers against you.
“Remember, pornographers have always been on our side. Brave, ready to fight for our rights. Smut is our friend.” — John Waters
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is Bloof with a comment about Trump taking out his anger over the reflecting pool on a US olympic canoeist:
If he’s mad about the Olympian, wait until he hears about that idiot who drove a motorcade of heavy, armoured vehicles across it before they filled it back up. That guy will be in sooo much trouble.
In second place, it’s Zeus with another joke about the whole debacle:
LMFAO
A narcissist obsessed with a reflecting pool?
Not again. Sheesh.
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with an anonymous comment about time travel:
You don’t reseaerch time travel: you just make a decision to research time travel and if your future self doesn’t promptly show up to say hi then you know that your research would have failed.
Finally, it’s MrWilson responding to the FCC General Counsel’s complaint about porn being widely available and cheap or free:
Well something needs to be affordable in our society if it’s not going to be food, housing, education, energy, and other basic human needs.
That’s all for this week, folks!