https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15100620/congress-fcc-isp-web-browsing-privacy-fire-sale
Republicans in Congress just voted to reverse a landmark FCC privacy rule that opens the door for ISPs to sell customer data. Lawmakers provided no credible reason for this being in the interest of Americans, except for vague platitudes about "consumer choice" and "free markets," as if consumers at the mercy of their local internet monopoly are craving to have their web history quietly sold to marketers and any other third party willing to pay.
The only people who seem to want this are the people who are going to make lots of money from it. (Hint: they work for companies like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T.) Incidentally, these people and their companies routinely give lots of money to members of Congress.
So here [below in the article] is a list of the lawmakers who voted to betray you, and how much money they received from the telecom industry in their most recent election cycle.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Monday November 27 2017, @07:30AM (2 children)
In fact, there are no libertarians in Congress, and only two that come close. Neither Senator Rand Paul or Representative Justin Amash voted for this. There is nothing remotely libertarian about it, and in fact, it appears you're the only one that has hallucinated any connection to libertarianism here.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 27 2017, @08:02AM (1 child)
And who do these alleged "libertarian" members of Congress caucus with? Hmmm? Yep, as asserted by the ancient wisdom, libertarians are just Republicans who smoke pot. And are kinky.
(Score: 4, Touché) by c0lo on Monday November 27 2017, @08:16AM
Kinky good. Sleazy bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford