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Senate Votes Against FCC Internet Privacy Rules

posted by takyon on Saturday March 25 2017, @07:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the shear,-milk,-but-do-not-pet-'em dept.

Anonymous Cowarder writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 25 2017, @09:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 25 2017, @09:38PM (#484196)

    I am all for fixing our political process to remove the influence of money, but "OTOH, if would be fine if no government regulated the internet, meaning (for example) that no ISP would have a guaranteed monopoly anywhere" is not quite what would really happen. Unregulated markets tend towards monopolization since the big players can buy / bully their smaller competitors. Simple human greed and ambition is the problem, so we need checks and balances to make sure one person can not mess up the whole. The problem with regulation is making sure it works, and a recurring problem is regulation that is ineffective and counter productive. Not sure how to make the system strict yet flexible.