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posted by CoolHand on Saturday March 11 2017, @07:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the trumping-the-liberals dept.

Leashes Come Off Wall Street, Gun Sellers, Polluters and More

WASHINGTON — Giants in telecommunications, like Verizon and AT&T, will not have to take "reasonable measures" to ensure that their customers' Social Security numbers, web browsing history and other personal information are not stolen or accidentally released.

Wall Street banks like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase will not be punished, at least for now, for not collecting extra money from customers to cover potential losses from certain kinds of high-risk trades that helped unleash the 2008 financial crisis.

And Social Security Administration data will no longer be used to try to block individuals with disabling mental health issues from buying handguns, nor will hunters be banned from using lead-based bullets, which can accidentally poison wildlife, on 150 million acres of federal lands.

These are just a few of the more than 90 regulations that federal agencies and the Republican-controlled Congress have delayed, suspended or reversed in the month and a half since President Trump took office, according to a tally by The New York Times.

The emerging effort — dozens more rules could be eliminated in the coming weeks — is one of the most significant shifts in regulatory policy in recent decades. It is the leading edge of what Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trump's chief strategist, described late last month as "the deconstruction of the administrative state."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/05/us/politics/trump-deregulation-guns-wall-st-climate.html

In the submitter's opinion - some of these rollbacks are mistakes. Others, though, should never have been passed. For instance, the Social Security Administration being drafted into notifying law enforcement agencies of HIPAA protected information. The MPG requirements on American auto makers? The fuel efficient cars are available, but no one wants them. Left and right alike, buyers demand the gas guzzlers. Banking regulations, though, should stay in place. Trump should know that the bankers won't regulate themselves. FFS, he saw the same meltdown that we all saw in 2008!


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 11 2017, @03:42PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 11 2017, @03:42PM (#477766)

    You're quoting therightscoop.com . . . seriously?

    You might as well be quoting some slimeball from diddlethechildren.com as an "unbiased" reply to a post questioning the effects of childhood molestation on people later in life. You'd get about the same level of dishonesty, and of sliminess.

  • (Score: 2, Disagree) by Runaway1956 on Saturday March 11 2017, @04:04PM (3 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday March 11 2017, @04:04PM (#477772) Journal

    Yeah - I read a lot of stuff. I've posted a submission from NYT, for instance. I've posted submissions from left-leaning media. I've posted submissions from right-leaning media. I've posted submissions from foreign news sources.

    If I've violated your "safe space" or something, then I've done my good deed for the day. No need to thank me - violating special snowflakes is a dirty job, but somebody has to do it. I invite you to get out of your echo chamber, and violate yourself a little bit. That will save me some work!

    • (Score: 1) by i286NiNJA on Sunday March 12 2017, @10:36PM (2 children)

      by i286NiNJA (2768) on Sunday March 12 2017, @10:36PM (#478233)

      Your article was play by play of a twitter fight.
      Seriously you're the snowflake that's tumblr shit right there. Just be a man and admit it was fucking stupid .

      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 13 2017, @01:19PM (1 child)

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 13 2017, @01:19PM (#478381) Journal

        In spite of your almost incomprehensible name, I wouldn't call you an "it".

        • (Score: 1) by i286NiNJA on Tuesday March 14 2017, @09:53PM

          by i286NiNJA (2768) on Tuesday March 14 2017, @09:53PM (#479155)

          Such wit!
          If you don't know what an i286 is or why anyone would WRiTE LiKE THiS you probably should fuckoff back to infowars.