Congress just killed Internet privacy protections

[JEDI]

(Didn't see anything on the 1st page about this)

http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/28/technology/house-internet-privacy-repeal/index.html

Senate passed the bill last week.
House passed it yesterday (3/28).
Now it goes in front of Trumpf.


I expect 'no log' VPN subscriptions to rise.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Republicans- 231 yeas, 5 did not vote
Democrats- 1 yea, 184 nays, 8 did not vote


There's your pieces of shite, I say get out the pitchforks. The entire idea of privacy had completely disappeared over the past decade or two. Snowden started a national conversation on privacy, but like good little Americans we quickly forgot.


Trump won't veto this either. Rand Paul should have been president.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Republicans- 231 yeas
Democrats- 1 yea

Bipartisan effort.

 

[cytg111]

Land of the free.. more data for firms like cambridge analytica to gobble up.. nice.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Bipartisan effort.

I visit another forum which leans pretty heavily conservative since it's Louisiana centric (although I will say it's much more tolerant to people having opposing viewpoints and willing to discuss rather than criticize like this place) and they're pissed. It's almost unanimously agreed this is a bad thing for individual privacy and the repubs shooting themselves in the foot.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Net neutrality is next, buckle up kiddos, it's gonna get expensive to stream video

 

[vi edit]

Net neutrality is next, buckle up kiddos, it's gonna get expensive to stream video

That's when we as a nation have to really band together and do a gut check on ourselves. If we want our rights back, cancel your subscriptions and starve the beast. Vote with your wallet.

 

[ch33zw1z]

I agree, ain't gonna happen though.

Even explaining this current topic to people seems difficult at times

Start talking net neutrality and most don't seem to really get it.

 

[Commodus]

I visit another forum which leans pretty heavily conservative since it's Louisiana centric (although I will say it's much more tolerant to people having opposing viewpoints and willing to discuss rather than criticize like this place) and they're pissed. It's almost unanimously agreed this is a bad thing for individual privacy and the repubs shooting themselves in the foot.

I've heard that Reddit's Trump camp is also upset... and that takes effort when they usually cheerlead all his policies. Who knew that electing politicians bent on recklessly deregulating everything (usually at the behest of corporations) would recklessly deregulate something you care about?

 

[kage69]

Party of small government and personal liberty at work again folks. What a shitshow. Horrible legislation even by pathetic republican standards.

More ammo for 2018 hopefully.

 

[chowderhead]

Republicans- 231 yeas, 5 did not vote
Democrats- 1 yea, 184 nays, 8 did not vote


There's your pieces of shite, I say get out the pitchforks. The entire idea of privacy had completely disappeared over the past decade or two. Snowden started a national conversation on privacy, but like good little Americans we quickly forgot.


Trump won't veto this either. Rand Paul should have been president.

Real profile in courage Rand Paul abstained from voting on the bill along with a one other Senator who is recovering from surgery.

 

[1prophet]

That's when we as a nation have to really band together and do a gut check on ourselves. If we want our rights back, cancel your subscriptions and starve the beast. Vote with your wallet.

That ain't happening because because corporate America has all of you, especially social justice warrior pretend liberals brainwashed.

You have no problem boycotting a state over what bathroom they tell you to use, which affects very, very few, you threaten to boycott a franchise food establishment because their CEO is against gay marriage,

But boycott the use of your smartphone, computer, tablet, etc. and anything else on the internet to send these corporations a message, please,

just the thought alone of giving up Facebook, twitter, etc. will make most Americans go through withdrawals that would rival any drug addict.trying to come clean.

 

[TheVrolok]

That ain't happening because because corporate America has all of you, especially social justice warrior pretend liberals brainwashed.

You have no problem boycotting a state over what bathroom they tell you to use, which affects very, very few, you threaten to boycott a franchise food establishment because their CEO is against gay marriage,

But boycott the use of your smartphone, computer, tablet, etc. and anything else on the internet to send these corporations a message, please,

just the thought alone of giving up Facebook, twitter, etc. will make most Americans go through withdrawals that would rival any drug addict.trying to come clean.

All absolutely true.

 

[Jhhnn]

I visit another forum which leans pretty heavily conservative since it's Louisiana centric (although I will say it's much more tolerant to people having opposing viewpoints and willing to discuss rather than criticize like this place) and they're pissed. It's almost unanimously agreed this is a bad thing for individual privacy and the repubs shooting themselves in the foot.

But they'll be voting Republican anyway, right?

An in depth article-

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/for-sale-your-private-browsing-history/

 

[ivwshane]

That ain't happening because because corporate America has all of you, especially social justice warrior pretend liberals brainwashed.

You have no problem boycotting a state over what bathroom they tell you to use, which affects very, very few, you threaten to boycott a franchise food establishment because their CEO is against gay marriage,

But boycott the use of your smartphone, computer, tablet, etc. and anything else on the internet to send these corporations a message, please,

just the thought alone of giving up Facebook, twitter, etc. will make most Americans go through withdrawals that would rival any drug addict.trying to come clean.

So once again, it's up to the liberals to save us? Or is it once again up to liberals to clean up Republican messes? Or is it once again the fault of liberals for letting Republicans do their thing?

What we do know is that once again, supporters of the party of personal responsibility won't be taking any responsibility.

 

[Thebobo]

That ain't happening because because corporate America has all of you, especially social justice warrior pretend liberals brainwashed.

You have no problem boycotting a state over what bathroom they tell you to use, which affects very, very few, you threaten to boycott a franchise food establishment because their CEO is against gay marriage,

But boycott the use of your smartphone, computer, tablet, etc. and anything else on the internet to send these corporations a message, please,

just the thought alone of giving up Facebook, twitter, etc. will make most Americans go through withdrawals that would rival any drug addict.trying to come clean.

Oh piss off Troll.

 

[Jhhnn]

That ain't happening because because corporate America has all of you, especially social justice warrior pretend liberals brainwashed.

The actions of Republicans are the fault of people who didn't vote for them?

 

[theeedude]

http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15100620/congress-fcc-isp-web-browsing-privacy-fire-sale

Look up your Republican congressman, and how much he/she cost the ISP's to buy.

 

[vi edit]

http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15100620/congress-fcc-isp-web-browsing-privacy-fire-sale

Look up your Republican congressman, and how much he/she cost the ISP's to buy.

Good to see my state Senator Mitch McTurtle was the most resistant and hardest to convince since he took the most money to buy off. A true man of morals and convictions.

/s

 

[ch33zw1z]

http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15100620/congress-fcc-isp-web-browsing-privacy-fire-sale

Look up your Republican congressman, and how much he/she cost the ISP's to buy.

All in a days work

 

[momeNt]

This looks bad that they can follow the internet and telecom lobby and get a bill in front of Trump, while failing on Healthcare reform.

This should not have been hot ticket, and the fact that it is is bad.

 

[Jhhnn]

This looks bad that they can follow the internet and telecom lobby and get a bill in front of Trump, while failing on Healthcare reform.

This should not have been hot ticket, and the fact that it is is bad.

Please. It never should have made it out of committee. OTOH, Repubs need to deliver to at least some of their big money backers. Having failed with healthcare they'll hustle up for some of the others to keep the money coming in.

It's damning coming from the Party who raised hell about NSA data gathering but willingly grants much the same power to ISP's. At least the NSA doesn't sell the information out into the wild where it can be used in ways as yet unimagined.

Big Brother? He doesn't work for the gubmint. He sits on dozens of corporate boards of directors.

 

[vi edit]

On a related note, anyone know of a VPN appliance/subscription you can pick up that basically encrypts all traffic on your local network at your home and not just a single device using a stand alone app?

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Apparently draining the swamp actually meant draining it of all regulations and restrictions to increase corporate profit at the expense of the citizenry.

 

[momeNt]

Please. It never should have made it out of committee. OTOH, Repubs need to deliver to at least some of their big money backers. Having failed with healthcare they'll hustle up for some of the others to keep the money coming in.

It's damning coming from the Party who raised hell about NSA data gathering but willingly grants much the same power to ISP's. At least the NSA doesn't sell the information out into the wild where it can be used in ways as yet unimagined.

Big Brother? He doesn't work for the gubmint. He sits on dozens of corporate boards of directors.

Why are you responding with "please". Aren't we agreeing?