In March of last year, Stephen Colbert stepped out onto the Late Show stage and kicked off a monologue over the twinkle of a keyboard. “Hey, I’ve got a quick question for you guys, if you don’t mind me asking,” he said to the audience. “Anybody here use the internet?”
The audience cheered. “Might want to knock that off,” he deadpanned.
Congress had just voted to allow internet service providers to sell the browser histories of consumers, a move that was greeted by an overwhelming backlash online. No one in the United States wanted that, Colbert said — except, he suggested, a Republican representative from Tennessee Marsha Blackburn. He showed a clip where the lawmaker argued the change would, in fact, improve privacy. He quipped that…
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