The Senate just voted to undo landmark rules covering your Internet privacy
U.S. senators voted 50 to 48 to approve a joint resolution from Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) that would prevent the Federal Communications Commission's privacy rules from going into effect. The resolution also would bar the FCC from ever enacting similar consumer protections. It now heads to the House.
takyon: Also at NPR, The Hill, Reuters, Ars Technica, and EFF.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 25 2017, @09:23PM (4 children)
If you're not using Tor all the time then chances are that scumsucking advertising firms already have more than enough information about you
Just because somebody has been punching me, doesn't mean I should be OK with more people punching me.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 25 2017, @09:33PM (3 children)
It is clear that there is a certain segment of users on this site whose goal is to normalize fascism. Some may be paid, others are brainwashed fools, victims of chance and circumstance.
I'm sure many will be happy to see me go, and that day may come soon. Empty words in the digital ocean, likely having no impact on reality.
(Score: 2) by Spamalope on Sunday March 26 2017, @04:24PM (2 children)
whose goal is to normalize fascism
authoritarianism! In the US the horrors of fascism are taught but not the far greater death toll of the leftist authoritarians. Left or Right isn't the danger, collectivist authoritarianism is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 26 2017, @06:46PM
So it's not Left or Right, it's the leftists. Gotcha +1 (makes sense to Trump)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 26 2017, @08:11PM
The 14 Characteristics of Fascism [ratical.org]
What Are Fascists? Are There Fascists In The USA? - Vice President Henry Wallace (1944) [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [thomhartmann.com]
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"Leftist"/"Socialist"/"Anti-Capitalist" defined in 16 words:
the extension of Democracy from politics to economics through collective ownership and workers' control of production. [google.com]
Defined in 13 words:
social and economic decisions should be made by those whom they most affect. [google.com]
Defined in 6 words:
self-emancipation of the working class [google.com]
(No elected official inside USA.gov is a Leftist.) [politicalcompass.org]
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If you're going to be partisan, at least make sense.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]