PDS 4.12 BLACKMAIL EXPOSED! Ethan Klein Scandal Gets Nasty, John Oliver Privacy Controversy, & More

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Go to https://NordVPN.com/phil to get a 2-year plan at a huge discount plus 1 month free. It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! News You Might Have Missed: https://youtu.be/I8P3bLNqFi0 TEXT ME! +1 (813) 213-4423 Get More Phil: https://linktr.ee/PhilipDeFranco – 00:00 - John Oliver Blackmails Congress With Their Own Digital Data 03:32 - Ethan Klein Apologizes After Making Jokes About LGBTQ Community 07:22 - Sponsor 08:15 - Soho Karen Pleads Guilty to Hate Crime 09:55 - 16 Injured in New York Subway Shooting 10:53 - Consumer prices rose 8.5% in March – ✩ TODAY’S STORIES ✩ John Oliver Blackmails Congress With Their Own Digital Data: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/last-week-tonight-john-oliver-recap-season-9-episode-7-congress-data-1335598/ Ethan Klein Apologizes After Making Jokes About LGBTQ Community: https://twitter.com/h3h3productions/status/1513740566839783425?s=20&t=U44iJaZHXZKzqVV9hk_i4w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWgVZRN7xLQ Soho Karen Pleads Guilty: https://www.fox5ny.com/news/soho-karen-miya-ponsetto-guilty-plea 16 Injured in New York Subway Shooting: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/12/nyregion/brooklyn-subway-shooting Consumer prices rose 8.5% in March: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/12/consumer-prices-rose-8point5percent-in-march-slightly-hotter-than-expected.html ✩ STORIES NOT IN TODAY’S SHOW ✩ Millie Bobby Brown Says Social Media Had “Gross” Response to Her 18th Birthday: https://roguerocket.com/2022/04/12/millie-bobby-brown-internet-gross-reaction-18/ Man Arrested for Posing as Federal Agents Claims He Just Wanted “Friendship”: https://roguerocket.com/2022/04/12/man-arrested-posing-as-federal-agents-claims-he-wanted-friendship/ YouTube Pranksters Sued by University of Southern California: https://roguerocket.com/2022/04/12/usc-sues-youtubers/ —————————— Executive Producer: Amanda Morones Produced by: Cory Ray Edited by: James Girardier, Maxwell Enright, Julie Goldberg Art Department: Brian Borst, William Crespo Writing/Research: Philip DeFranco, Brian Espinoza, Maddie Crichton, Lili Stenn, Ben Wheeler, Chris Tolve Production Team: Zack Taylor, Emma Leid ———————————— #DeFranco #EthanKlein #JohnOliver ———————————— Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is blackmail bad? Sounds like a weird question. What if it wasn't for a nefarious reason? What if...
0:17.0	It's not about money? It's about sounding a message.
0:22.0	That's exactly what's happening with John Oliver right now.
0:24.3	Last week tonight host is actively and publicly blackmailing US politicians.
0:28.6	Because John realizes the very unfortunate truth.
0:30.8	If it's happening to you, who gives you so far? But if it's happening to me, this is serious business.
0:36.0	Interestingly, the one time that Congress has acted quickly to safeguard people's privacy was in the 1980s,
0:42.0	when Robert Bork was nominated to the Supreme Court
0:44.9	and a reporter walked into a local video store and asked the manager whether he could have a
0:49.4	peek at Bork's video rental history and he got it. As soon as Congress realized there was
0:55.5	nothing stopping anyone from retrieving their video rental records too,
0:59.7	they freaked the F
1:00.5	Fck out and lo and behold the Video Privacy Protection Act was passed with quite deliberate speed.
1:08.0	And John referenced back to that situation because of the current Hellscape that is the data and privacy situation that we're all living through.
1:13.4	The sheer number of negative possibilities just off of basic browsing is mind-blowing.
1:17.6	We've got shady data brokers with virtually no oversight, collecting your data and building profiles that can track who you are, where you are,
1:24.4	and what you are most likely to do or buy.
1:26.8	You cannot edit this dossier, and others from cops to reporters to your own abusers can find
1:31.6	and use this information.
1:32.7	Which brings us to the blackmail.
1:34.7	We could, for example, use data brokers to go fishing for members of Congress
1:39.6	by creating a demographic group consisting of men age 45 and up in a five mile radius of the
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