In the strangest Edward Snowden interview ever conducted, Last Week Tonight host John Oliver managed to dumb down the mass surveillance debate into something the American people actually care about: their dick pics.

It’s outright bizarre, and yet, Oliver is clearly onto something.

Oliver: “Edward, if the American people understood this, they would be absolutely horrified.”

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Snowden: “I guess I never thought about putting it in the context of your junk.”

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