News broke over the weekend that hundreds of celebrities phones and iCloud accounts had been hacked and personal photos and videos found.
The hacker released some of the photos online, saying they had many more which they would release for money.
Many celebrities came out to confirm or deny the authenticity of the photos. Apple and the FBI are investigating the hack and initial reports suggested that Apple's iCloud service had been compromised.
British actor and comedian Ricky Gervais thought he would share his opinions on the matter and tweeted what turned out to be a very controversial comment.
His message stated: “Celebrities, make it harder for hackers to get nude pics of you from your computer by not putting nude pics of yourself on your computer.”
Many who saw it had a thing or two to say about his theory...
In case you missed his hastily deleted tweet, here is Ricky Gervais blaming the violation of a woman's body on her. pic.twitter.com/Uck6krEGVd
— Emily Reynolds (@rey_z) September 1, 2014
.@rickygervais Ah, victim-blaming at its finest. "If you don't want people to break into your house and steal your things, don't own things"
— Brian Herbert (@HerbieHero) September 1, 2014
Mr Gervais did respond to his critics though, tweeting that just because he made a joke about something, doesn't mean he condones it.
Making a joke about a thing doesn't mean you condone that thing.
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) September 1, 2014
Of course the hackers are 100% to blame but you can still makes jokes about it. Jokes don't portray your true serious feelings on a subject
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) September 1, 2014
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.
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) September 1, 2014
Whenever I defend freedom of speech someone always says "so you'd let Hitler off?" Haha. It wasn't his words so much as all that genocide.
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) September 1, 2014
