This is exactly right. I grew up in NYC and know his type very well. The ironic thing is that the guys like Trump utterly despise mid-America and rural people, but they always use those people to further their aims.
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President Trump Signs Repeal of U.S. Broadband Privacy Rules
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This is exactly right. I grew up in NYC and know his type very well. The ironic thing is that the guys like Trump utterly despise mid-America and rural people, but they always use those people to further their aims.
It also allows us to see your browsing history.
Do you want to make any confessions before we look through your browsing history?
So, nothing good then?
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ISP's are common carriers. That means they are a government-backed monopoly, and therefore, they are regulated as monopolies.
The consumer has no choice about ISPs. They can either have internet connections or not.
BTW the reason ISPs are common carriers is because, when telephones were invented 150 years ago, you'd have a hundred different telephone companies with hundreds of wires hanging above your neighborhood for each phone company. This was a safety problem.
So, government stepped in and said "OK, only ONE of you guys can connect to each house.. We allow you to officially have that monopoly on the connection, but you have to share with every phone company that wants to connect to that house and follow these rules" And so common carrier was born.
And now, one of those rules that these monopolies gets, is the ability to see your private browsing data.
Aren't Republicans great?
Remember this the next mid-term election: not a single Democrat voted for this, and not a single Republican voted against this.
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If you have a ISP bill and it's in your name, I'm pretty sure they have your social.
Government mandating we have no privacy rights to our own browsing history is more government interference not less. Using this screwed up logic, you could say, the local Gym has the right to sell what I did in my shower cubicle because government is allowing my privacy to be violated by the business that provides the service. Also there is a difference in me giving Google or Yahoo my information voluntarily. But the ISP's do not need my permission to spy on me and sell my browsing data without my permission. See the difference?
They have actual monopolies in large parts of the country.
Whatever you gotta do to sell it to yourself I guess.
Why any normal citizen who isn't either...
1. In politics for a living
AND/OR
2. A high level executive or major stockholder in big data-driven businesses
... would ever think this change is a GOOD thing is beyond me man.
No, government interference is good. Government interference is when government stops private companies from doing things you don't want.
Government interference is not when it doesn't stop private companies from doing things.
how can anyone rationally back up this fool?
seriously what does it say about your morals?
your a terrible person
seriously what does it say about your morals?
your a terrible person
Not sure if you work for a living or not. But Social Security office now does not send paper statements. One has to "enter" SSN on their web page to obtain our statements. By your weird logic, now comcast owns that information and can sell it?
comments like this make me miss the downvote button. How the hell is the last thing a good thing?
Very useless law the NSA already has your dick pic, browsing history and pretty much everything I think Trump just wanted to officially include the ISP to the party. Bush then Obama then Trump they're all watching you. Anyways I think the VPN market is about to expand big time. Kudos to David Icke who said that all politicians including Trump are puppets of the hidden hands.. anyways..we'll see
Holy mackerel is that whole article ever fake news... Breitbart is just completely full of ****.
Corporate speak: "We don't have any plans to sell data we collected from you" = "At the precise time we are making this statement, we are not planning to sell data collected from you. Any time after that is fair game." Why the heck else would they lobby for this if they didn't plan to monetize it? It's absurd!
The NSA has YOUR dick pics, since you're not a US citizen, and they don't spy on US citizens. They only spy on foreigners.
The Snowden leaks show that they have filters to remove communications of US citizens.
The FTC never had authority to enforce privacy rules for ISPs, nor will it have it in the future. Here's an editorial by the FTC and FCC commissioners worth reading:
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcsweeny-clyburn-internet-privacy-20170331-story.html
Some quotes:
"What people may not realize, moreover, is that if the legislation approved by Congress becomes law, there will be no privacy rules governing broadband providers. The FCC no longer will be able to protect consumer privacy and, because of arcane restraints on its jurisdiction, the FTC will be unable to pick up the slack."
"If the legislation is signed into law, your broadband provider could collect this information and sell it to advertisers, or any third party, without your knowledge — and without ever offering you a choice."
"Last year’s election was fought over many issues; removing privacy protections from American consumers was not one of them. We have yet to hear from a single consumer who wants less control over their sensitive personal data. Unfortunately, that is exactly what this legislation would do."
Time for someone like Apple to step forward and offer some type or fully distributive VPN service that is built into the OS.
Oh, I agree with you! It's terrible. But my point was so is all the back door stuff. So is all the stuff private companies do like Google and Facebook with personal data. But then again, law enforcement is important also. People want to feel safe and should feel safe.
Worst president ever. You should be ashamed of yourself if you voted for him.