This is exactly what the Dr. Jill Stein voters voted for. Own it.
Guess its time to switch all my browsing over to a proxy server. Given the lurch toward authoritarianism this country is taking, it might not be a bad idea overall. I Imagine any number of well funded right wing groups would love to get their hands on lists of those whose browse and comment on sites like this one.
So the only reason for doing this is to undo whatever Obama did, no matter how good it might be, how much sense it might make…
Fucking assholes
I am not sure how long this will last. How long until a republican’s browsing history gets leaked by one of the big ISPs.
Let’s hope it’s immediately!
“What America needs is one standard across the internet ecosystem and the Federal Trade Commission is the best place for that standard,” said Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore.
So, rather than creating legislation that DIRECTS the FTC to come up with standards, which COULD leave in place current standards until that is completed, let’s make sure we can get some profit in immediately, while the Trump/Republican FTC “considers” new rules.
Well done Republicans, as usual.
One question: If this is being sent to Trump to sign, what was the vote in the Senate???
50 republicans for rolling back the rules, 2 who didn’t vote and all Dems against.
Thank You.
Fuckers
It would be interesting to see the poll numbers on this issue. It is tough to imagine that many folks would support this effort, if they knew about it.
Is this another example of republicans damaging themselves for the sake of their corporate owners?
Exactly. They are paranoid as it is. And for good reason, considering their criminal tendencies. This will bite them in the butt, BIGLY.
Groups are at the ready to buy them and publish them as soon as they become available.
It’s so sad when Rethugliklans get bitten on the ass by that pesky bastard Unintended Consequences.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is on the front lines of net privacy and has a good anonymizing browser, Tor.
They are too busy denouncing those questioning Trump’s Russia connections as McCarthyite war-mongers.
This is the sort of destructive tampering that is going on quietly while the rest of the “Media” is focused on Frnkrnputz-Putin bromance and all that tommyrot.
I have said before, and I mean that these people have come to destroy.
Everyone is breathing heavy sighs of relief over the ex-“Health Care” bill. But while that is happing in the headlines small but important things like this are continuing, and have since Frankenputz and his minions got started.
These are important items being turned back, along with the clock, on many issues. Just as much pressure needs to come from interested parties on deplorable actions like this as on “headline” issues.
This is where the “democratic” party ought to be making common cause between groups and people who are going to be affected by these “Midnight” roll-backs of their rights. But as usual, they sulk in the corner whining pathetically and doing so little, let alone being vocal about what alternatives they would enforce given the chance. This sorry example of “Governance” proves my continued contention that there is no effective, orchestrated opposition to this kind of theft coming from any quarter which matters. To paraphrase Burke: Evil will succeed, because good people will be lead to do nothing.
Something like this should be a clear sign to the GOP base that their party doesn’t have their best interests at heart. There is no sensible reason to overturn these rules other than service to the pure greed of corporations. This does nothing for the little guy, and everything for the big guy, and it’s not a hard concept to grasp.
Internet companies like Google don’t have to ask users’ permission before tracking what sites they visit. Republicans and industry groups have blasted that discrepancy, saying it was unfair and confusing for consumers.
Unfair? ISPs are there to sell internet access (and cable, and phone, and…). Google and Facebox aren’t in that market. The “unfair” argument is BS (boy, they sound like whiny millennials and special snowflakes). That aside, even if it was unfair, and given that Google/Facebox’s privacy practices need improvement as well, the answer isn’t to scrap privacy practices but to strengthen them equally across all facets of the Internet landscape. Of course, that only makes sense if you ignore the real reason these companies and the GOP don’t like privacy rules, which is, in the words of Whiz and Ice, “mo’ money, mo’ money, mo’ money”!