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John Oliver and Edward Snowden use your dick pics to explain mass surveillance

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.

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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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