Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous comment on our post about clarifying robots.txt in the age of AI crawlers:

As I understand it, the crux of the debate is that AI tools are not making bulk requests to servers. They’re making very limited requests to specific pages based on user actions. However, though limited in scope, this is still automated retrieval of web pages. The question whether robots.txt should (or does) apply to such requests is worth exploring.

Our second place winner for insightful this week is also the second place winner on the funny side. It’s a comment from That One Guy about the GOP’s ongoing insistence that speech they don’t like is censorship:

War is peace.

Slavery is freedom.

More speech is censorship.

Truly the modern GOP have learned from the best in their field.

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with an anonymous comment about Tim Wu’s all-out attack on the First Amendment:

Isn’t one of the things you’re supposed to ask before you make a law, “What would the worst person I know be able to do with this power?”

Next, it’s Someone with a comment on our post about how Justice Alito’s views on speech shift according to who he wants to win:

I fixed the title for you

Justice Alito’s Views On All Cases Shift Depending On Who He Wants To Win.

He has been like this for a long time. The fact and law and reason do not matter, it is who he wants to win. Several dead/retired justices had said that several members of the court would figure out who they wanted to win first, and they try to back into a law or facts to support their person views.

Over on the funny side, our first place winner is Andrew R with another comment on that post, this time about Alito’s past warning that a case would be interpreted dangerously by future courts:

He was right about one thing, it didn’t take long for him to interpret it dangerously.

We’ve already had the second place winner above, so we’ll move straight on to editor’s choice, and another anonymous comment about Tim Wu:

An analogy

When I worked in a “customer service” capacity, we had a joke: “The job’s great, except for the customers.”

Tim is starting to sound that way.
“Free Speech is great, except for the speech.”

Finally, it’s tanj with a comment on our post about California forcing AT&T to continue servicing its taxpayer-subsidized copper connections:

Yet again

Tech Dirt keeps insisting that just because something was promised and paid for it should be provided.

That’s all for this week, folks!