John Oliver - Government Surveillance: Interview w/ Snowden

submitted by eric3579
9 years 11 months 2 weeks ago
There are very few government checks on what America’s sweeping surveillance programs are capable of doing. John Oliver sits down with Edward Snowden to discuss the NSA, the balance between privacy and security, and dick-pics. -yt

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siftbotsays...

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Monday, April 6th, 2015 12:59am PDT - promote requested by original submitter eric3579.

sanderbossays...

"First they came for the dick picks, and I did not speak out -- Because I never took or sent pictures of my 'junk'..."

(takes a while to get going, but I really liked the video, because Oliver takes a pretty critical stance towards Snowden)

RedSkysays...

Pretty disappointing bit really. I mean I get his point (that people generally have a poor understanding of nebulous surveillance techniques and lack of interest unless it is tangibly relevant), but he doesn't need 30+ minutes and a cruddy interview to make it.

I would prefer he would take Stewart's model of making the interviews generally serious rather than conducting them TDS correspondent style.

Lawdeedawsays...

He breaks it down to what bored people understand...they need to be intrigued--at least young people. Or else it would be Justin Beiber...

RedSkysaid:

Pretty disappointing bit really. I mean I get his point (that people generally have a poor understanding of nebulous surveillance techniques and lack of interest unless it is tangibly relevant), but he doesn't need 30+ minutes and a cruddy interview to make it.

I would prefer he would take Stewart's model of making the interviews generally serious rather than conducting them TDS correspondent style.

dagsays...

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

I don't know - I thought he was pretty serious / even-handed - especially about the NYT fuck up.

RedSkysaid:

Pretty disappointing bit really. I mean I get his point (that people generally have a poor understanding of nebulous surveillance techniques and lack of interest unless it is tangibly relevant), but he doesn't need 30+ minutes and a cruddy interview to make it.

I would prefer he would take Stewart's model of making the interviews generally serious rather than conducting them TDS correspondent style.

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