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John Oliver had a pretty good segment about Bolsonaro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsZ3p9gOkpY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsZ3p9gOkpY

by Cenk 7y ago

animalnewbie 7y ago
One guy makes up "facts" then another brings up John Oliver, the king of making things up but in a "sophisticated and logical so must be true" way.
- rndgermandude 7y ago
  John Oliver is a mixed bag. Some well researched stuff, some extremely badly researched stuff, and some stuff that cannot be identified as researched/not researched - mostly appeals to common sense - and is plastered over by some jokes. I had my "aha moment", when he claimed on the show that you have to register revenge porn with the copyright office (this was before most laws which explicitly target revenge porn as a criminal offense) and further suggested that copyright infringement is more or less the only avenue open for victims at the time. But that's simply not how copyright works (since the Berne Convention of 1886), and completely forgets about how image and personality rights work in the US either (something Gawker learned from Hulk Hogan). It was extremely bad advice to anybody watching who was a victim of revenge porn as it discouraged people from even trying to reign in the perpetrators at all. At the same time, him addressing this issue and requesting reforms especially making criminal laws, was a good thing
gcbpp 7y ago
that one is complicated too. see how he jokes about the last president being involved in the crime and that he would have won the election if he wasn't in jail? well, turn out after the election, investigations found out there was zero credible evidence and last week he was receiving an homage in europe for his political career. https://en.mercopress.com/2020/03/03/socialist-paris-mayor-makes-lula-da-silva-an-honorary-citizen-of-the-city https://en.mercopress.com/2020/03/03/socialist-paris-mayor-m...

John Oliver had a pretty good segment about Bolsonaro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsZ3p9gOkpY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsZ3p9gOkpY

by Cenk 7y ago

John Oliver had a pretty good segment about Bolsonaro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsZ3p9gOkpY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsZ3p9gOkpY

animalnewbie 7y ago

One guy makes up "facts" then another brings up John Oliver, the king of making things up but in a "sophisticated and logical so must be true" way.

rndgermandude 7y ago
John Oliver is a mixed bag. Some well researched stuff, some extremely badly researched stuff, and some stuff that cannot be identified as researched/not researched - mostly appeals to common sense - and is plastered over by some jokes. I had my "aha moment", when he claimed on the show that you have to register revenge porn with the copyright office (this was before most laws which explicitly target revenge porn as a criminal offense) and further suggested that copyright infringement is more or less the only avenue open for victims at the time. But that's simply not how copyright works (since the Berne Convention of 1886), and completely forgets about how image and personality rights work in the US either (something Gawker learned from Hulk Hogan). It was extremely bad advice to anybody watching who was a victim of revenge porn as it discouraged people from even trying to reign in the perpetrators at all. At the same time, him addressing this issue and requesting reforms especially making criminal laws, was a good thing

gcbpp 7y ago

that one is complicated too. see how he jokes about the last president being involved in the crime and that he would have won the election if he wasn't in jail? well, turn out after the election, investigations found out there was zero credible evidence and last week he was receiving an homage in europe for his political career. https://en.mercopress.com/2020/03/03/socialist-paris-mayor-makes-lula-da-silva-an-honorary-citizen-of-the-city https://en.mercopress.com/2020/03/03/socialist-paris-mayor-m...