Trump plans to sign broadband privacy repeal as Repubs plan overturn of net neutrality provisions

[Miles Archer]

President Donald Trump plans to sign a repeal of Obama-era broadband privacy rules as a bigger fight looms over rules governing the openness of the internet, the White House said on Wednesday.

Republicans in Congress on Tuesday narrowly passed the repeal of the privacy rules with no Democratic support and over the strong objections of privacy advocates.

The fight over privacy sets the stage for an even larger battle later this year over Republican plans to overturn the net neutrality provisions adopted by the administration of former President Barack Obama in 2015.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer said he did not know when Trump would sign the bill.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-internet-idUSKBN1702TA?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social

[samnsara]

1. shep smith.. yes i do like him...suggested a VPN to get around the privacy issue...?

[Miles Archer]

2. I suggested it here last night. Check GD for the thread.

Private Internet Access, ExpressVPN, and AirVPN are my top choices. I have used them all. I am currently using AirVPN.

[underpants]

5. What do these words that you speak mean?

[Miles Archer]

6. You're not familiar with VPNs?

I posted this last night...explains it all.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028864765

[underpants]

8. Thanks

I've learned much here today.

[Doreen]

3. So, when leaks start happening to him then he only will have

himself to blame. Stupid vile piece of festering crap.

[C_U_L8R]

4. May give new meaning to "IP"

when the world sees how much time Trump spends watching videos on GoldenShowersDotRU.

[Efilroft Sul]

7. If Trump signs our privacy away, he doesn't have a leg to stand on about his taxes and privacy.

And the Democrats better raise hell about the hypocrisy.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. THIS is why Robert Mercer and Bannon wanted..and got...probably wrote... the no privacy laws:

Link to an article about Mercer.
the vital part is halfway down where they talk about Cambridge Analytica, a small data analytics company.
You can her all thru it. and it explains how they will do propaganda, vote rigging, all because they can collect and analyze people data.
I very strongly encourage people read this.

He is reported to have a $10m stake in the company, which was spun out of a bigger British company called SCL Group. It specialises in “election management strategies” and “messaging and information operations”, refined over 25 years in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan. In military circles this is known as “psyops” – psychological operations. (Mass propaganda that works by acting on people’s emotions.)

Cambridge Analytica worked for the Trump campaign and, so I’d read, the Leave campaign. When Mercer supported Cruz, Cambridge Analytica worked with Cruz. When Robert Mercer started supporting Trump, Cambridge Analytica came too. And where Mercer’s money is, Steve Bannon is usually close by: it was reported that until recently he had a seat on the board.

Last December, I wrote about Cambridge Analytica in a piece about how Google’s search results on certain subjects were being dominated by rightwing and extremist sites. Jonathan Albright, a professor of communications at Elon University, North Carolina, who had mapped the news ecosystem and found millions of links between rightwing sites “strangling” the mainstream media, told me that trackers from sites like Breitbart could also be used by companies like Cambridge Analytica to follow people around the web and then, via Facebook, target them with ads.

On its website, Cambridge Analytica makes the astonishing boast that it has psychological profiles based on 5,000 separate pieces of data on 220 million American voters – its USP is to use this data to understand people’s deepest emotions and then target them accordingly. The system, according to Albright, amounted to a “propaganda machine”.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/26/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage