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President Trump Signs Repeal of U.S. Broadband Privacy Rules

zorinlynx said:
Has this administration done ANYTHING so far that is good for the common person, instead of enriching corporations and the wealthy?

Anything? It's distressing to see how completely in the pockets of big business they are. And the crazy thing is a lot of people who voted for Trump supposedly did so because they thought the *Democrats* were in the pockets of big business.

I mean, maybe they were a little bit, but nothing like this!!
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Hahahaha.. You are such a hoot. "Has this administration done ANYTHING".. That was a good one.
 
Trump: corporations greatest friend, and enemy to privacy and decency if it means his buddies at the top of the big corps get paid more.

Good thing he drained that swamp... what a f'in joke.
 
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Trump is your typical NewYork Hustler/Con-man. He could care less about the average american. His whole Whitehouse run was a money grab to enrich him and his donors.

It goes to show how Middle America is so gullible, and easy to con!
 
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And a word from the other side.

“This is a deliberate disinformation campaign from the usual suspects from the tech-left and the media, and they’re completely misrepresenting the issue, and the conservatives are falling for the fake news narrative,” he told Breitbart News. “Up until 2015, the FTC protected consumer privacy, and then the FCC Net Neutrality order eviscerated the consumer protections at the FTC by pre-empting FTC’s jurisdiction. The FCC then came around and hammered ISP’s with draconian regulations that do not apply to Google or Facebook.”

“This is especially concerning, considering they have considerably more access to your personal data than Comcast or Verizon,” Kerpen explained. “It’s insane that Google and Facebook have a near duopoly in the advertising game and they have less stringent rules in terms of what they can do with your private information.”


The president of the American Commitment said that Google is trying to rig the system against ISPs. “Google has this whole array of left-leaning groups defending their favorite regulations that put them in their favor,” he claimed. “If you recall Gigi Sohn, the counselor to former Chairman Tom Wheeler, resigned from the FCC and she’s now at the Open Society Institute, and she’s working with George Soros, and they’re pushing a lot of money to these narratives. There’s a reason that former Chairman Wheeler waited until the last possible minute to institute these regulations. They knew these were very easy headlines to write, such as ‘Republicans in Congress Undo Privacy Rules’ specifically to create this distortion campaign to make it harder to get rid of Net Neutrality.”

Kerpen added, “This whole fight against the ISPs is a sideshow, by far the biggest threat to consumer privacy is Google that has trackers on over 60 percent of all websites. Google owns YouTube, and they have trackers everywhere, and they’ve shifted the focus of the debate to issues that don’t regulate Google.”

Katie McAuliffe, executive director of Digital Liberty, told Breitbart News, “This is nothing more than another Obama-era regulation that needs to be removed.”

McAuliffe told Breitbart News that this broadband rule was another power grab by the Obama-era FCC. She said, “Obama’s FCC broadband rule was a power grab under the guise of privacy.”


http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...-to-sign-repeal-of-obama-era-broadband-rules/
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69Mustang said:
Not quite. Back in October, the privacy law hadn't been enacted so you're right on that account. But back in October we didn't have a prohibition to enabling privacy rules in the future. <-- That is what people should be up in arms about. It's the same type of thing N. Carolina did with it's "repeal" of HB2. Distract with the right and and slit the throat with the left.
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Arguably if the rules were so necessary why did Obama wait until the end of his presidency to put them in? Doing so is what let Congress override them through an obscure law signed by Bill Clinton in 1996. Trump has used this law 7 times since taking office, and there is more to come.
 
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By the way, privacy laws should fall under the FTC not the FCC. Google and others lobbied for the privacy laws to be enforced under the FCC because Google and others are not telecoms or ISPs and laws would not effect them collecting your data giving them an unfair advantage. So let's hope the next step is to make a new privacy law for the FTC that includes Google and ISPs.
 
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forcesteeler said:
Trump is your typical NewYork Hustler/Con-man. He could care less about the average american. His whole Whitehouse run was a money grab to enrich him and his donors.

It goes to show how Middle America is so gullible, and easy to con!
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"Middle America" as in the middle of the US? The states where every county in them voted for Trump, or "Middle America", as in the middle-income people? Remember 3 million more people voted against him than for him.
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LIVEFRMNYC said:
Well ya'll wanted Trump, here ya go.
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I'm personally offended that you included me in that statement. o_O
 
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So another example of the companies doing the right thing without a law requiring them to? Another win if you ask me.
 
RudySnow said:
Less government regulation is always good. Conversely, you millennials will care nothing of Google collecting, tracking, and selling your data, right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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This isn't even remotely the same thing. For one, I can choose not to use Google. Second, Google doesn't charge me money. On the other hand, I can not choose not to use an ISP, and I'm already paying my ISP money so they shouldn't be allowed to cash in twice by also monetizing my personal information.

Besides, the ISPs can literally see everything you do on the Internet. Even Google with its large network of advertising sites doesn't get this kind of complete picture of their users, and they certainly can't tie it to you personally if you aren't logged into their account like the ISPs can.
 
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