John Oliver has a hilariously smart idea. Shame on Mark Levin. CNN moves forward after big merger.

Last Week Tonight host John Oliver may have found a creative -- and hilarious -- way to get Congress to do something about those “oddly specific” targeted ads people often see while online, which originate with the "data brokers" that collect one’s online information, package it, and sell it to any interested company or individual.
Data brokers, Oliver said, were able to collect data on people's sexual preferences, physical ailments, and all sorts of deeply personal information, easily match it to their real identities, and then sell the files to anyone they wished.
To illustrate his point, Oliver explained that his team had created fake digital ads to target to members of Congress. Using geolocation data to track cell phone users around Capitol Hill, Oliver said they now had data on which lawmakers had clicked on ads offering everything from divorce advice to Ted Cruz erotic fan fiction (yes, really) and held up an envelope he claimed had a list of names.
“If you’re thinking, ‘How on Earth is any of this legal?’ I totally agree with you. It shouldn’t be,” said Oliver. “And if you happen to be a legislator who is feeling a little nervous right now about whether your information is in this envelope, and if you’re terrified about what I might do with it, you might want to channel that worry into making sure that I can’t do anything.”
It was a humorous segment on an HBO comedy show, but Oliver made a more convincing case for better online privacy protections than some more serious think-pieces we've read recently.

Falsely accusing someone of being a pedophile is considered to be so vile, there is a long list of court cases that have found it to be defamation per se, as an allegation of serious sexual misconduct.
Fox News' Mark Levin frequently touts his past work as a lawyer and has written multiple books with legal themes, so you would think he would know that. Maybe he doesn't, maybe he just doesn't care, but either way, his interview with David Mamet on Sunday's Life, Liberty & Levin was quite disturbing when Mamet went so far as to slander an entire industry as pedophiles.
After a dose of anti-immigrant rhetoric arguing that “people all over the world — particularly people of color” are “streaming over the borders," Mamet claimed that without "community control over the schools," children would be "not only indoctrinated — but groomed in a very real sense, by people who are, whether they know it or not, sexual predators." He doubted the teachers were abusing kids physically but did accuse them of abusing kids "mentally and using sex to do so."
“Teachers are inclined, particularly men because men are predators, to pedophilia," Mamet declared.
This despicable comment received zero pushback from Levin, who merely commented that the culture embraced by Democrats and the media was "quite sick."
Making broad and unfounded accusations that entire groups are pedophiles has become a troubling new trend on the right. Shame on Mamet for saying this, and shame on Levin for condoning it.