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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