Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

from the speak-softly dept

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous comment about the use of FOSTA to go after companies that are totally disconnected from the content in question, like MailChimp:

The FDA is participating in sex trafficking because it regulates the food being served by businesses to sex traffickers, QED.

Next we've got a double winner, taking the second place spot on both the insightful and funny sides. It's another anonymous comment, this time about George Gershwin's nephew clutching his pearls at the thought that someone might make rap versions of Gerswhin's songs when they enter the public domain:

If that Jonny S. Bach dude's reputation can survive being Moog-synthesized, whistled, Jazzed-and-drummed-up (not to mention being sung by musical illiterates in churches every Sunday), then Georgio will just have to take his chances with the punk-rappers. In any case, G. G. is just another corpse, and his feelings are beyond our ability to offend.

But I think Wilde's aphorism still applies: the only thing worse that being rapped-about is ... not being rapped-about.

For editor's choice on the insightful side, we start with another anonymous comment that serves as accompaniment to the first place winner above, with a notion about FOSTA that is less amusingly illustrative, but more likely to actually happen:

Under the same reasoning applied to Mailchimp , any ISP can be sued if they do not take a site offline when notified that is is involved in sex trafficking. That is a powerful weapon for those who would censor the Internet, especially if these cases proceed.

Next, it's Jason, who modified our description of Disney and the entertainment industry in general's angry attitude of "we gave you everything and you still pirated you ungrateful wretch":

not quite, but close

"we gave you everything we wanted to give you and you still pirated you ungrateful wretch"

That's more the actual complaint, I think.

Over on the funny side, our first place winner is Stephen T. Stone responding to the same incident as the previous comment, in which movies have been disappearing without warning from Disney+:

One explanation for the missing movies:

Disney thought everyone liked Pirates of the Caribbean, so they decided to help everyone become a pirate.

We've already had our second place double winner above, so it's on to editor's choice for funny with dan8mx also responding to Marc Gershwin's fears:

So, I just pulled up "Summertime" on YouTube and started beatboxing to it. I don't want to alarm anyone, but it just... worked. YouTube didn't crash, my phone didn't catch on fire, nothing.

I was assured that copyright could prevent this. Maybe I have powers.

And finally, it's Norahc getting a little suspicious after one day this week seemed to have a lot of good news:

So just today we have the CAFC smacking down a patent troll, cops being held accountable due to body cam footage, and now Florida state courts respecting the 4th AND 5th Amendments at the same time?

Did somebody move up April Fool's Day to January 7th?

That's all for this week, folks!

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  1. identicon
    Bobvious, 12 Jan 2020 @ 1:58pm

    Don't tell Marc Gershwin about Pirates of the Caribbean

    link to this | view in thread ]

  2. icon
    Norahc (profile), 12 Jan 2020 @ 2:37pm

    Re: Don't tell Marc Gershwin about Pirates of the Caribbean

    Well, Dead Men Tell No Tales

    link to this | view in thread ]

  3. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 12 Jan 2020 @ 10:53pm

    Re: Don't tell Marc Gershwin about Pirates of the Caribbean

    That is some of the funniest stuff I've seen in a while.

    That does cover the piracy rhetoric really well though.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  4. identicon
    David, 13 Jan 2020 @ 3:49am

    Gershwin

    If that Jonny S. Bach dude's reputation can survive being Moog-synthesized, whistled, Jazzed-and-drummed-up (not to mention being sung by musical illiterates in churches every Sunday), then Georgio will just have to take his chances with the punk-rappers. In any case, G. G. is just another corpse, and his feelings are beyond our ability to offend.

    To be honest, I once had to dance to BWV565 ("the" toccata and fugue) made into Samba or Cha cha (forgot which) and that was close to impossible since it was much too distracting. Too much music.

    But you could turn something like the St John's Passion into a pop musical. Arguably, it already is. I was pretty surprised when first performing it.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  5. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 13 Jan 2020 @ 4:57am

    How long til someone sues google for providing service,s to terrorist,s ,sex traffickers, since we are at a point where everyone use,s email,
    gmail is the most widely used email service.
    someone needs to sue ford and toyota since bank robbers uses cars to rob banks,
    sue the phone companys too , where doe,s it stop.
    Almost any email service provider could be sued since criminals might use the service to communicate .

    link to this | view in thread ]

  6. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 13 Jan 2020 @ 8:51am

    Re:

    How about maps services.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  7. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 13 Jan 2020 @ 5:41pm

    Re: Re: Don't tell Marc Gershwin about Pirates of the Caribbean

    This is the other one I looked at based on a search.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avaSdC0QOUM

    I'm on a boat motherf*cker explains the piracy accusations against file-sharing in the most hilarious way possible.

    link to this | view in thread ]


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