House just voted 232-184 to take away your internet privacy

[RealityChik]

Today is a very sad day in America. Internet privacy is officially dead.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/03/house-representatives-votes-232-184-away-broadband-privacy/

In the course of one week, the theft of your internet privacy by Congress is now complete. All it needs now is for Cheeto Jesus to sign it and it's a done deal. You no longer have the "luxury" of opting out of the collection and sale of your private life by anyone willing to pay for it. Employers, government, law enforcement, advertisers, everybody can now know and sell about your plans to look or another job, donate to Planned Parenthood, use tracking to know when your children leave and arrive to and from school, where you go on vacation and whether your home is vulnerable to robbery while you are gone, can use your email, text messages, internet browser history, internet forms you fill out, everything...to deny you healthcare, car insurance, inform your employer that you are planning to leave, falsely incriminate you for activities that are nobody's business but yours...

The only hope is that the state you live in will be as outraged as you are and will motivate state politicians to create protections for you at the state level. Most of us, (maybe all of us) don't even have the luxury of boycotting the ISPs with whom we subscribe services and switching services to another, more ethical vendor, if any really even exist outside the realm of local dial-up ISPs.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. GOP really hates us, wow.

[dchill]

2. So much for the Party of Personal Responsibility.

[Girard442]

3. Cue the Trumpinistas chanting...

..."If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about."

[femmocrat]

4. Is there any chance this could be unconstitutional?

Maybe the courts will save us.

Does anyone know if any democrats voted for it?

[onenote]

9. No.

Keep in mind that until late October there were no broadband privacy rules and those rules never went into effect (the republican majority FCC put a hold on them on March 1).

What Congress just did is apply an existing statute that allows the legislative branch to block agency rules by a majority vote of "disapproval" by both the House and Senate within a certain time period of the rules being adopted.

And no Democrats voted for it.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2017/roll202.xml

[Ohioblue22]

5. thank god the dems turned their back on clinton cause ya know

a server and email etc.....

[Ilsa]

6. Here's the roll call. My rep didn't care about my opinion.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2017/roll200.xml

[onenote]

10. This is the final roll call vote. Your link is to a preliminary vote.

Fifteen repubs actually voted no, which is sort of shocking except that they knew it was going to pass anyway so it gives them cover.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2017/roll202.xml

[Ilsa]

13. It was the final vote at the time I posted. NT

[femmocrat]

14. Thank you.

Happy to see no dems voted for it.

My totally worthless repug congressman did though.

[mvd]

7. What a disgrace! At least no Dem voted for this piece of crap

It makes me so angry that people's lives are being changed for the worse sometimes daily because of the cheater in the White House.

[democratisphere]

8. Use a private search browser and tell Google, etc. to go to hell.

[onenote]

12. Sadly, the rules that were struck down never applied to Google.

It was one thing about those rules that was screwed up. They only applied to Internet Service Providers (i.e., the company that provides you with Internet connectivity, like your cable operator or Verizon or ATT) and not to "edge providers" -- the companies like Google, Amazon, etc etc that you connect to over the Internet. In that regard the rules really didn't make a lot of sense. Why let companies like Google use your personal information (including your search habits) but not allow Verizon to use information about what sites you connect to.

Of course the solution isn't to get rid of the rules applicable to service providers, it is to expand the rules to cover edge providers.

[global1]

11. Someone Here Needs To Keep Track Of All These Obama Things That Trump & The Repugs Are.....

overturning - so that when the Dems get back into power - they can undo what the Repugs & Trump have been doing since the election.