For which now we can simply just pay an ISP for rather than have Russia do it!
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President Trump Signs Repeal of U.S. Broadband Privacy Rules
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For which now we can simply just pay an ISP for rather than have Russia do it!
Because the other choice was any better?
those people are too stupid to know what they're doing. I live in rural southern illinois and nobody around here that voted for him has any idea what any of his actions mean, they just know that he's reversing things obama did, and that is enough to make them happy.
Telephone is even less secure. And even if you go directly to a bank or whatever, you think your SSN never reaches the internet from that point? These days they're often just filling out the same application that you'd be doing at home.
Outside of financial institutions, many services simply require the SSN and have no option besides the internet.
She was. Still one of the worst presidential candidates we've had in a while, but compared to Trump? No contest.
So when are you guys going to impeach this latest republican idiot?
I may not be American but come on, we've got dumb conservatives too (and yes a dumb population that googles "what is the EU", after voting us OUT OF THE EU!) but ours are at least somewhat tolerable. Yours are downright dangerous morons and everyone in the entire world knows it except you! This guy is meant to be the leader of the 'free' world, and he's making us all less free, less safe, and less of a nice place to be.
So theres my 'two cents' as you say across the pond. Impeach him. Because everything this guy does, doesn't just affect the US, its affects everyone else too. Hence my little rant.
Ok, rant over. Get rid of this spoiled child! STOP VOTING IDIOTS PRESIDENT!
As long as Republicans control congress, he's not getting impeached. If by some miracle democrats make serious gains in 2018 it could happen then, but that's... very unlikely.
I don't think he'll get a second term though. Even with his rabid fanbase, his support is already waining.
in that case, you should be ashamed to STILL support a 2 party system.
"For end users, the repeal of the law effectively maintains the status quo..."
^ Should have been the first line of the article.
^ Should have been the first line of the article.
I'm amazed at how ignorant so many of you are. Do you even know what freedom is anymore?
What you are seeing here is the opposite of the Obummer era idea of government - passing laws and regulations to control absolutely everything. What you are witnessing is the gradual return of the free market - getting government out of everything.
De-regulate it all! If a truly free market (not a crony-capital one) can be allowed to flourish, you will eventually see services improve and costs go down. You don't like how one company is treating you (or your data)? Then switch to someone else. The only role government should have is to prevent monopolies. Government should not run anything. Government's constitutionally sanctioned roles are few, and telling ISPs what to do is not one of them...
Can we have a free-for-all orgy of anything goes with no laws at all? Certainly not, but the path being trod for several decades now has been in the wrong direction. Will these changes be perfect, smooth sailing? Of course not. Freedom is messy, but it's freedom! It allows you to choose instead of being controlled (regulated) to death. Thank God the last 8 years are over.
Oh, and almost everything Trump has done so far is just a repeal of executive actions that the former dipschnitzel didn't really have the authority to implement in the first place.
What you are seeing here is the opposite of the Obummer era idea of government - passing laws and regulations to control absolutely everything. What you are witnessing is the gradual return of the free market - getting government out of everything.
De-regulate it all! If a truly free market (not a crony-capital one) can be allowed to flourish, you will eventually see services improve and costs go down. You don't like how one company is treating you (or your data)? Then switch to someone else. The only role government should have is to prevent monopolies. Government should not run anything. Government's constitutionally sanctioned roles are few, and telling ISPs what to do is not one of them...
Can we have a free-for-all orgy of anything goes with no laws at all? Certainly not, but the path being trod for several decades now has been in the wrong direction. Will these changes be perfect, smooth sailing? Of course not. Freedom is messy, but it's freedom! It allows you to choose instead of being controlled (regulated) to death. Thank God the last 8 years are over.
Oh, and almost everything Trump has done so far is just a repeal of executive actions that the former dipschnitzel didn't really have the authority to implement in the first place.
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The Cards Against Humanity owner is going to play and use their own game against them.
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That is a point... how can VPN's be excluded from all this excatly ?
If all these bills are targeted at getting inf from ISP's, and more browsing history to paint a picture, why are VPN providers all excluded ? There can easily be a law that says "All VPN providers must store logs" No government has even thought of that yet is boggles the mind.
I prefer privacy, but seems VPN's are on the free stand here, and always will be
These days its all "exclusion" and "policies" in place that prevent one from handing off to another, but there is no reason why it cannot be done..... They'd be riots, but if the governments want sharing to be done, they could allow it for any info they lie between companies.
It's only "they go to some length to protect our privacy" that keeps them in check..
MY reaction is always, is that just a time bomb waiting to go off very soon ? I think it is.
I'm still surprised at the toxic stew of ignorance and mental gymnastics it must take to trust so blindly in private corporations, whose only interest is that of increasing shareholder profit.
You are right about one thing: that the last 8 years - i.e. the outstanding recovery from the worst economic catastrophic in modern times, by nearly every measurable metric - are over.
When you sign up for any service, do you simply click "agree" on the terms and conditions, or do you like living in a bubble, assuming that a third-party has your best interests at heart?
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Thanks for expounding with your keen intellect. ::rolls Eyes::
America for sale everybody! Whether it's clean air, clean water, anti-corruption laws, healthcare, privacy, you name it...it's all sold to the highest bidder. Everything in the name of money.
FDA is vital and serves an important role. All cancer drugs are fast tracked through the FDA. Drug companies work closely with the government because drug safety is very important to both parties. My father in law is the head of drug research and development at one of the largest pharmaceuticals in the country and I've never heard him complain. It's a good partnership.
Now when the government wants to spy on you they won't even need to go through the courts...they can just pay your ISP to hand over all your history. They'll probably even get a volume discount.
- Kick people off health insurance aka legally sentence Americans to death, to make more money
- Privatize education to make more money
- Roll back climate change rules to make more money
- Sell your browsing history to make more money
I wonder what Trump will do next to suck the life out of the American people.
- Privatize education to make more money
- Roll back climate change rules to make more money
- Sell your browsing history to make more money
I wonder what Trump will do next to suck the life out of the American people.
Are you implying she wasn't?
Do you believe she would have sold your private data?
How many Democrats voted for this?
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ISPs are government granted monopolies. They are SUPPOSED to be regulated, because that's what happens to free market monopolies. Free markets only benefit the consumer when there are lots of sellers.
If you want to argue that ISPs shouldn't be regulated as monopolies, then you can do that, but that means you now have dozens of phone wires hanging outside of your house, like what happened in the era before the FCC. This caused a lot of safety problems, in addition to looking like your neighborhood is an industrial wasteland.
Do you want dozens of phone lines hanging outside your house?
You want more government regulations. Government regulation is a good thing.
This is why we want government - so they prevent people from doing what they want. We created government to limit the rights and freedoms of people. That's the entire purpose of government. It's a social contract that says: You don't get to do the things you want to do, and I let you live.
So not be a libertarian. Libertarianism isn't a smart philosophy, and only the ignorant follow it.
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There are a couple points here. One point is that the rule was to take effect in December and we were looking foward to it, it was a done deal and about time. The other point is far worse, which as others have pointed out here: the new law Trump just signed not only rolls back that rule from the Obama era but also prevents the FCC from making any more rules, period. So it's like "We've now said they can sell your stuff so get over it, and don't come crying to mama any more."
This is stupid. Now there will be some crazy patchwork of laws state by state about what can and cannot be sold of your data without consent. Like if you notice there are already special laws in California, and so on some sites' privacy statements you'll see "For your California rights, click here..." etc. Now there'll end up being a raft of links like that on privacy statements.
And how are those state laws enforceable? You live in California but your data lives in... some server in Virginia? Who's gonna know when your data leaks out of some site to the highest bidder. It's not like they plan to email you a copy of a sales receipt when your ISP sells your info down the river.
I'm just glad we can finally buy the data of all Trump supporters.
It will be interesting to go through the browsing history of Trump supporters.
Hopefully one step closer towards a heart attack at least. I mean no ill will towards anyone, but this man is a disgrace to the human race and his policies can have an impact far greater than just on the American people.
Zero steps forward, a dozen steps back. If I was a billionaire if be happy. I'm not.
If you didn't have VPN before the policy was enacted, why are you doing it now?