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      8 months ago

      Unfortunately that link doesn’t seem to work in Canadia but I’ll look it up. I love John Oliver.

      o7 <3

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          8 months ago

          Urgh it doesn’t work 😭 I’ve tried searching for it and it doesn’t come up, just random playlists named Authoritarianism that don’t actually contain the video. I’ll have to pirate it. Sorry John :(

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            8 months ago

            That’s odd - I wonder if it is actually blocked there. Take consolation that John Oliver would very much want you to, under those circumstances:-). Also, how much more of an impact is that video going to have on you as you see it enacted before your very eyes, if your nation did block it.

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              8 months ago

              I think it’s HBO who blocks it 😩. Lots of American TV networks block their content from being viewed outside the US.

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                8 months ago

                That is weird. Does HBO block it even from their direct website? And then this video is 5 years old so it may not even be on there - so with little profits to gain from it, they still would block it regardless, b/c they are just that petty:-(. Yay “freedom”!:-P

                Well, one last link in case it helps:

                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ximgPmJ9A5s

                Or the Piped version is:

                https://piped.video/watch?v=ximgPmJ9A5s

                but I think that still streams from the YouTube so would not expect it to work, unless like YouTube itself a proxy could bypass it.

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                  8 months ago

                  Urgh, I thought for a second that maybe the piped link was gonna work but no :(

                  I could get it to work with a proxy or vpn but fuck it. I pirated it 🏴‍☠️

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                    8 months ago

                    John Oliver would be so proud:-). You will support him in other ways - e.g. by spreading the message in your own country. He makes a TON of money, so truly I believe that he will be fine, and would rather the message be not so artificially limited as that corporation has made it.

                    Now the real question: what did you think of it? And it’s okay if you’d rather not answer right away, but if you wanted to, then I would enjoy hearing about it from you:-). After all, I cannot ever travel back in time to re-watch that video for the first time, but I can enjoy that feeling vicariously through you perhaps!?:-P