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Senate Votes To Kill FCC's Broadband Privacy Rules (pcworld.com)
The Senate voted 50-48 along party lines Thursday to repeal an Obama-era law that requires internet service providers to obtain permission before tracking what customers look at online and selling that information to other companies. PCWorld adds: The Senate's 50-48 vote Thursday on a resolution of disapproval would roll back Federal Communications Commission rules requiring broadband providers to receive opt-in customer permission to share sensitive personal information, including web-browsing history, geolocation, and financial details with third parties. The FCC approved the regulations just five months ago. Thursday's vote was largely along party lines, with Republicans voting to kill the FCC's privacy rules and Democrats voting to keep them. The Senate's resolution, which now heads to the House of Representatives for consideration, would allow broadband providers to collect and sell a "gold mine of data" about customers, said Senator Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat. Kate Tummarello, writing for EFF: [This] would be a crushing loss for online privacy. ISPs act as gatekeepers to the Internet, giving them incredible access to records of what you do online. They shouldn't be able to profit off of the information about what you search for, read about, purchase, and more without your consent. We can still kill this in the House: call your lawmakers today and tell them to protect your privacy from your ISP.
Member of Marines United, I oppose this. I should be able to slut shame and talk about how much I want to rape female Marines without having to worry about dealing with things like potential consequences. SEMPER FI, MOTHERFUCKERS!!! Airmen, sailors, and soldiers are a bunch of fucking FAGGOTS!
Who should we support then? Obama/Hillary style progressives? They're the other half of the problem. We had 8 years of clinton 1.0, 8 years of bush 2.0, 8 years of bush 2.1 retread edition (now with more urban hip and basketball!) with obama.. This last choice was between an incompetent sellout and Clinton 2.0.
Switching from republican to democrat or vice versa is pointless..
Democrats are absolutely against education, they kill every attempt at charter schools they can. The only exception is the labor union run schools which are the same schools failing our children. It's all about pandering to a block of votes. Pandering to the unions that take money from members to support political candidates that those members may not themselves support.
Health insurance? Are you kidding? If you like your plan you can keep it, period. Unless you're poor enough to be subsidized or you're a 25 year old child on your parent's plan, your plan premium likely went way up and your plan benefits likely went down.
Yes, Republicans don't want to fund abortions. No, Planned Parenthood does not provide healthcare.
The EPA needs to be curbed. Remember Obama wanting our thermostats to be centrally controlled? To hell with that. The EPA is out of control and it's hurting US based businesses which in turn hurts jobs, which hurts the livelihood of the nation. The US can't compete in some industries because there is no way to meet the EPA's restrictions and compete with foreign countries that don't have to. It's not about wanting to dump toxic waste in rivers, it's about not wanting to let the US bear the brunt of pollution concerns while other nations profit handsomely while polluting like maniacs. China, for example. Our EPA policies is making the air there unbreathable. Congrats forward thinkers.
I don't like this repeal either, but at the same time.. I'm not sure it's a concern of the federal government. Seems like an ISP could make a killing by promising not the resell or collect this kind of information. Instead of dick waving over politics, maybe we should think about why no company is taking advantage of this obvious opportunity?