Ricky Gervais has received a backlash on Twitter...Oh, Gawd, what's the fat fool said now..?
...after suggesting that the celebrities who had their nude photos hacked were to blame - because they had taken and stored the photos in the first place.*nonplussed face*
The comedian posted a message to his 5.99million followers saying: 'Celebrities, make it harder for hackers to get nude pics of you from your computer by not putting nude pics of yourself on the computer.'Eminently sensible advice. Who could possibly..
Oh. Wait. I bet I know. Would it be feminist crackpots, perchance?
A subsequent message said: 'Of course the hackers are 100 per cent to blame but you can still makes jokes about it. Jokes don't portray your true serious feelings on a subject.'
He then wrote: 'It's more important to spend your energy trying to stop actual bad things than to run around trying to stop jokes about bad things.'
Gervais also said: 'This tweet does not condone anything' and 'Offence is the collateral damage of free speech.'Much as I dislike the man, what's he said that's so wrong?
8 comments:
He is right of course but Hollywod celebrities operate in their own little bubble and dislike being criticised.
The Office,Extras,Lifes Too Short,Derek are comic genius by the way.
Jaded.
I dislike him too but he is right. People forget that nothing is secure these days and probably never was. As the old saying goes, "Two men can keep a secret if one of them is dead".
Every moron will occasionally get something right.
Hollywood slebs aren't used to being called vacuous idiots to their faces or used to being criticised for being so very stupid in the first place by having these photos taken, let alone stick them on digital media with questionable cyber security. Truly they are idiots and get what they deserve. RG was absolutely correct and should not have removed his Tweet. Must be worried about not being asked to host the Oscars.
So why did you have the photos so professionally taken bimbo? Why did you load them onto the Cloud instead of keeping them privately on a disc or stick? Why did you (obviously) make it so very public that they were out there?
The cynic in me wonders if this wasn't done deliberately to boost a (flagging?) career.
"Cloud" storage is fundamentally insecure, that is why I don't keep much more than meeting minutes on it. These "Celebs" are guilty of crass stupidity if they thought it advisable to keep on such a domain anything that they would not wish a prudish Maiden Aunt to see. Of course now they are complaining about the very publicity they normally actively seek (well, at least when they control it...)
Gervais is getting off relatively light. You should see the shit-storm that hit a retired college president. And what horrible thing did he say? This:
“Without making the victims . . . responsible for what happens, one of the groups that have to be trained not to drink in excess are women,” Trachtenberg said on the show. “They need to be in a position to punch the guys in the nose if they misbehave. And so part of the problem is you have men who take advantage of women who drink too much. And there are women who drink too much. And we need to educate our daughters and our children on that — in that regard.”
And out came all the usual suspects screaming about blaming the victim.
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"The Office,Extras,Lifes Too Short,Derek are comic genius by the way."
Meh, they all leave me cold...
"Must be worried about not being asked to host the Oscars."
Heh!
"Of course now they are complaining about the very publicity they normally actively seek (well, at least when they control it...)"
Spot on!
" “They need to be in a position to punch the guys in the nose if they misbehave." "
A lady tried that at this year's Notting Hill Carnage. It didn't go so well...
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