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Nov 16, 2015  The host of 'Last Week Tonight' hit it out of the park once again with his take on daily fantasy sports sites like DraftKings and FanDuel, perfectly articulating why these are indeed gambling.

Last week, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman ordered DraftKings and FanDuel — two leading daily fantasy sports websites — to stop accepting entries from New Yorkers. Today, New York State Senator Michael H. Ranzenhofer introduced a bill to the Senate in response to Schneiderman’s ban.

The bill, S06092, would forego regulation of daily fantasy sports sites and simply legalize them because, as he sees it, they’re not gambling.

Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Ranzenhofer insists in the bill “that fantasy sports team activities are games of skill rather than games of chance.”

The bill, which you can see courtesy of Legal Sports Report, uses the term “contest of chance” to provide an idea of what daily fantasy sports sites are not. Ranzenhofer’s bill states, “all prizes and awards offered to winning participants are established and made known to the participants in advance of the game or contest and their value is not determined by the number of participants or the amount of any fees paid by those participants.”

Well, gamblers at a slot machine, presumably, know how much they can win and that’s still gambling. In addition, the DraftKings and FanDuel controversy came about in October for the exact reason that, yes, the number of participants did affect game outcome. (Employees used insider knowledge to use different lineups from regular gamblers to give themselves the best chance at winning with a unique lineup.)

It gets even harder to not call daily fantasy sports gambling when, as John Oliver revealed during Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, DraftKing itself actually used “betting” as a search keyword. That’s pretty close to an admission.

What Ranzenhofer’s bill does seem to get right, however, is that the state is simply being an old fuddy-duddy by continuing to ban and regulate gambling: “Time and time again, New York has stood in the way, whether by overregulation or outright banning of activities that are legal and enjoyed in most states across the country,” reads the bill.

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John Oliver reliably puts his jokes into the real world, memorably with one-off websites or buying air time on TV in other countries. But on Sunday night he lied about the metadata on his own website. It’s unclear if he should ever be trusted again.

In his biting critique of gambling daily fantasy sports websites — DraftKings, in particular — Oliver points out that they have used search-engine-optimized (SEO) keywords that use the word “betting” to signal to Google that, yes, it’s gambling — even when executives claim otherwise.

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Oliver shared his own SEO tags that his tech team uses to promote the program’s website. Apparently, anybody interested in finding a “british nerd,” “brit dork,” “news goof,” or “birdy fact funny man” will come across the Last Week Tonight website, whether they like it or not. Well, those aren’t present in his metadata.

All you have to do to see a page’s metadata is right-click and select “View Page Source” (on a Mac). “John Oliver” comes up quite prominently in his page source, but the rest, not so much.

Neither the source, nor the meta tag has the keywords:

Not even “British” comes up with a quick command-F search.

To be fair, “betting” is no longer on DraftKings.com, but Oliver’s news does come from mid-October.

Lying for the sake of a joke is not Oliver’s M.O. He often looks to what’s actually happened and jokes about it, or he makes the reality himself. For instance, he once made a website that could generate fake quotes because he’s often credited as having said something about airports that he’s never uttered. (Seriously, I spent hours trying to find proof.) In that same episode, he taunted Canada by breaking an antiquated election law, practically begging to be fined in real life.

On another Last Week Tonight, Oliver revealed that he put up an actual billboard in North Dakota, encouraging locals to “Be Angry. (Please.)”

Perhaps most extraordinarily, Oliver took out a real five-minute advertisement in Trinidad & Tobago. Following this summer’s FIFA corruption scandal, he urged T&T’s Jack Warner (the former Vice President of FIFA) to snitch on his colleagues and think of the greater good. The stunt was so effective and so grounded in reality that Warner actually responded to Oliver.

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The world is absurd and Oliver’s humor thrives on simply pointing out that ridiculousness. That’s what makes last night’s colossal SEO gaffe so potentially discomfiting to Oliver’s fans. We trust you, John. You’re not supposed to make jokes without facts. You’re a “birdy fact funny man!” Or at least we once thought you were. Not anymore.

Or until next Sunday’s episode.

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Update 11/17 10:19 a.m.: As Doug Pierce, Head of Search & Analytics at Cogney, points out, “betting” does remains as one of DraftKings SEO terms. Just inspect the element on their fantasy baseball site! Read his blog post about analyzing the DraftKings SEO here.