Monday, February 8, 2016

definitely real quotes

With all the new media now there a lot of ways somebody could be misrepresented and odds are I would be surprised if less than half of all people in this school were not given a distorted version of themselves online. Many people today are given an incorrect version of themselves today not only because it benefits others by incorrectly quoting someone else but also it is incredibly easy. Also, to satire this idea that if someone on the internet says something it must be true, comedian John Oliver made a website called definitelyrealquotes.com where it gives you a picture of a historical figure and quote that is absolutely not correct. The website could you give you a variety of fake quotes; you could find a picture of aristotle discussing STD’s or William Shakespeare asking “are you a cop because legally you have to tell if you’re a cop?”. The whole idea of this came to him when he saw a popular picture of him comparing airport security to gun control but the thing is he never said that, so on his show Last Week Tonight he introduced previously referenced website definitelyrealquotes.com to his viewers. Now, to wrap everything up, the moral here is just because you read something online that sounds true that does not mean that it is true.

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