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>99.999% of everyone who knows what asset forfeiture is knows it because of John Oliver. Asset forfeiture has been controversial since it started being used mu
by opo 10y ago
>99.999% of everyone who knows what asset forfeiture is knows it because of John Oliver.
Asset forfeiture has been controversial since it started being used much more frequently in the 1980s. I really doubt most of the people commenting on it here first heard of it on John Oliver's show.
- eric_h 10y agoHaha, indeed. I think I'd heard of it many years ago, but I didn't really understand how fucking absurd it is until a story about it appeared here on HN. A year (~ish/maybe, my memory of timelines is fucking terrible) later I saw the John Oliver episode.