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The broadband industry is suing Maine to stop a Web-browsing privacy law similar to the one killed by Congress and President Donald Trump in 2017. Industry groups claim the state law violates First Amendment protections on free speech and the Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution.
[...] Customer data protected by this law includes Web-browsing history, application-usage history, precise geolocation data, the content of customers' communications, IP addresses, device identifiers, financial and health information, and personal details used for billing.
[...] The state law "imposes unprecedented and unduly burdensome restrictions on ISPs', and only ISPs', protected speech," while imposing no requirements on other companies that deliver services over the Internet, the groups wrote in their lawsuit. The plaintiffs are America's Communications Association, CTIA, NCTA, and USTelecom.
[...] The lawsuit is part of a larger battle between ISPs and states that are trying to impose regulations stronger than those enforced by the federal government. One factor potentially working against the ISPs is that the Federal Communications Commission's attempt to preempt all current and future state net neutrality laws was blocked by a federal appeals court ruling in October 2019.
[...] But while the FCC was allowed to eliminate its own net neutrality rules, judges said the commission "lacked the legal authority to categorically abolish all 50 States' statutorily conferred authority to regulate intrastate communications."
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Joe Desertrat on Wednesday February 19 2020, @10:39PM (1 child)
Unless the system is changed from within by informed, intelligent voters, the outcome of almost any revolution will almost certainly end up with the most violent, bloodthirsty, sociopathic personalities ending up in power.
People are not really different from any other animals. If you have ever had a large fish tank with cichlids you usually end up with one dominant fish keeping the rest under constant threat of reprisal if they overstep their place. Remove that top fish and the number two fish takes over. That fish ends up being way more oppressive and brutal, where the first top fish would just display and frighten it away if a lesser fish strayed, the #2 fish becomes violently aggressive, chasing the lesser fish far beyond what is necessary for dominance (if there are no hiding places it may kill or injure the weaker fish). Humans are not really all that different.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday February 20 2020, @12:37AM
Humans are not really all that different.
We are precisely the same. People from middle management are assassins! All those pent up feelings for revenge boils over.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..