So...Net Neutrality

[Ed Anger]

I like how he starts out all clam before breaking into his spiel.

Don't mussel in on that.

[CountDeMoney]

I like how he starts out all clam before breaking into his spiel.

Don't mussel in on that.

Well, shucks.

[Ed Anger]

He did seem pretty steamed.

[HVC]

God dammit. Today has not been a good day for me.

[jimmy olsen]

Karmic justice

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/activist-finds-the-perfect-way-to-turn-tables-on-lawmakers-who-voted-to-repeal-internet-privacy-rule/

Activist finds the perfect way to turn tables on lawmakers who voted to repeal internet privacy rule

ERIN CORBETT
29 MAR 2017 AT 14:45 ET

Republicans in Congress voted this week to gut a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) privacy rule that would sell everyone out to Internet Service Providers (ISP). The push will give ISPs the right to sell customer data to marketers, insert ads in your traffic, and insert tracking cookies in HTTP traffic that can't be deleted or traced.

Repealing the FCC guidelines is a huge blow to online privacy. So Adam McElhaney, an activist based in Chattanooga, Tennessee who cares about privacy and net neutrality set up a GoFundMe page to collect donations to buy the internet histories of everyone who voted to repeal the FCC's privacy protections.

The page is called "Purchase Private Internet Histories."

"I think that your private Internet history should be yours," McElhaney wrote on the page. "I also believe your Internet should be neutral. I am raising money to help secure those freedoms."

McElhaney explained that because the Senate is gutting online privacy and allowing anyone's internet histories to be purchased, "I plan on purchasing the Internet histories of all legislators, congressmen, executives, and their families and make them easily searchable at searchinternethistory.com."

"Everything from their medical, pornographic, to their financial and infidelity," McElhaney wrote. "Help me raise money to buy the histories of those who took away your right to privacy for just thousands of dollars from telephone and ISPs.  Your private data will be bought and sold to marketing companies, law enforcement. "

"I don't think that what I lookup on the Internet, what sites I visit, my browsing habits, should be bought and sold to whoever. Without my consent," McElhany noted, with a call to action. "Let's turn the tables. Let's buy THEIR history and make it availble [sic]."

"Join me in the fight to turn the tables and do whatever it takes to take back your privacy."

The page has so far raised $54,446, after intending only to raise $10,000.

[Syt]

Tim, the link is the third post in this thread. 

[jimmy olsen]

Tim, the link is the third post in this thread. 

Whoops, we'll now you have an update on their funding situation.

[The Larch]

Apparently Trump's fanboys on Reddit are getting their panties all twisted and whatnot over this, and are trying really hard to convince themselves that Trump will actually veto the bill when it comes to him.

[Grey Fox]

The number of fallout this is going to cause will be way worse than Private email server.

Oh, those idiots.

[celedhring]

Apparently Trump's fanboys on Reddit are getting their panties all twisted and whatnot over this, and are trying really hard to convince themselves that Trump will actually veto the bill when it comes to him.

I don't want government in my life- MUH FREEDOM! But Warner snooping over my porn habits is okay.

[CountDeMoney]

It just means that everybody* is going to use the Pete Townsend defense.



*Everybody of note, that is.

[viper37]

Apparently Trump's fanboys on Reddit are getting their panties all twisted and whatnot over this, and are trying really hard to convince themselves that Trump will actually veto the bill when it comes to him.

The bill originated from the desire of his own selected FCC chairman.

[The Larch]

Apparently Trump's fanboys on Reddit are getting their panties all twisted and whatnot over this, and are trying really hard to convince themselves that Trump will actually veto the bill when it comes to him.

The bill originated from the desire of his own selected FCC chairman.

Of course he's not going to veto. Trump doesn't give a crap about the feelings of internet shitposters, no matter how much they supported him.

[CountDeMoney]

GOP rep defends online privacy rollback: 'Nobody has got to use the internet'
By Mallory Shelbourne - 04-15-17 22:55 PM EDT
TheHill.com


Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) at a recent town hall told a woman worried about internet privacy that using the internet is optional.

In the video, first made public by the liberal super PAC American Bridge, Sensenbrenner responds to a woman asking about Congress's decision to roll back Obama-era internet privacy laws.

"Well, you know, nobody has got to use the internet," Sensenbrenner told the woman.

"And the thing is that if you start regulating the internet like a utility, if we did that right at the beginning, we would have no internet," he continued.

Sensenbrenner added that he does not think it's his "job" to say "you cannot get advertising for your information being sold."

"I think we ought to have more choices rather than fewer choices with the government controlling our everyday lives," he said.

The House last month voted to undo privacy regulations adopted last year by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). President Trump signed the legislation, blocking the regulations.

The FCC rules, which had not yet gone into effect, would have given consumers greater control over what their internet service providers could do with their data by requiring that companies get permission before using customers' information for targeted ads.

Republicans argued that the regulations would have forced internet service providers to adhere to rules that don't apply to websites such as Google or Facebook, which also collect consumer information for data-driven ads.

[Syt]

The GOP is all about choice. You don't have to use the internet, you don't have to use the healthcare system, you don't have to drink that polluted water coming out of your pipes etc.