'The Fat Jew' Controversy and the Thin Line Between Sharing and Stealing

One of the cardinal sins among professional comedians is the stealing of jokes, but this sin become amazingly prevalent in the era of social media. It has never been simpler or easier to take someone else's content and purport it as your own. While this a pretty well-known risk of doing basically anything on the internet, the stakes change dramatically when someone starts making real money off of thievery and plagiarism.

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