John Oliver has a unique way to pass tougher laws about companies collecting, sharing, and selling our data online: basically blackmail Congress into it by collecting their data.
In case you hadn’t heard, nothing’s really private these days. Part of accepting computers into every aspect of our daily lives meant letting those computers track every single thing we do on them, and that information is promptly used by a variety of companies to make a quick buck. You know how you can mention something in conversation to a friend and then see a web ad for the same thing later that same day? Yeah, that’s not a coincidence.
Oliver’s argument, obviously, is that somebody needs to do something about this—with the appropriate “somebody,” in this case, being Congress. And so this 25 minute segment ends with a patented Oliver twist: he actually set up his own data tracking account, collecting information on the demographic most likely to be in Congress I assume this technically isn’t blackmail—I’m pretty sure TV shows are still not legally allowed to blackmail people—but it might be close enough.
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