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posted by Fnord666 on Monday November 27 2017, @02:26AM   Printer-friendly
from the which-did-you-vote-for dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday November 27 2017, @03:56PM (2 children)

    by tangomargarine (667) on Monday November 27 2017, @03:56PM (#602080)

    just because they were not Catholic like the Bush Family

    What? The only Catholic president we've had so far was JFK.

    or born outside of the United States, like president Trump, who was born in Bahama

    No.

    Donald Trump was born on June 14, 1946, at the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, Queens, New York City.

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    where Republicans wanted to use the blunt instrument of Government to steamroll the rights of families, just because they were not Catholic like the Bush Family, or born outside of the United States, like president Trump, who was born in Bahama, and so not legally able to be President of the United States, as it says in the Constitution, and shit.

    Not sure if you're trying to make some weird sort of argument via satire here, or you're just crazy.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 28 2017, @06:43AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 28 2017, @06:43AM (#602376)

    Donald Trump was born on June 14, 1946, at the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center,

    OK, Jamaica, not the Bahamas, but the man is unqualified to be President, because is not a natural born citizen. Unnaturally born citizen. Possibly even alien?

    Look up the Schaivo controversy. Tells you a lot about Republicans. All "freedom and individual choice", until they start telling you what bathroom you can go into, who you can marry, or what spouses you can pull the plug on, or grab by the pussie.

    • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday November 28 2017, @04:42PM

      by tangomargarine (667) on Tuesday November 28 2017, @04:42PM (#602560)

      OK, Jamaica, not the Bahamas

      at the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, Queens, New York City.

      So crazy it is, then.

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