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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 PartTimeZombie on Monday November 27 2017, @08:44PM
Those of us who live in Western nations with proportional voting, non-gerrymandered electorates, and who do not allow corporate interests to purchase the loyalty of representatives still have democracy.
The comment above about how things have got bad in the US over the last 18 months ignores the fact that things have been going downhill since (at least) your Mr. Reagan explained to the world how black was white and night was day and was rewarded with two terms as President, despite him not remembering most of his second term.
He would have been un-electable in most other Western democracies. (Although, to be fair several of your Presidents during my lifetime have been considered jokes in my country).