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How Can You Be in Favor of ISPs Collecting and Selling Your Data? (medium.com/davepell)
18 points by MediumCool on March 30, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Easy. Politicians love campaign contribution bribes and ISPs see that bribe cost as minimal compared to the amount of money they stand to make.

No citizens required, needed, or wanted to make this easy, easy decision.


> I know, I know. When Obama is for something, you have to be against it because you have this thing with Obama.

Don't forget these protections were created in 1934, not 2016. They were removed in 2016, and reimplemented in 2016, but the new implementation will never come into fruition now.

This isn't just blind hatred of the Obama administration. These rules were put into place by FDR before the internet existed. This is blind hatred of regulation. This is blind partisanship against anything done by a democrat.


I suppose if you are a major shareholder of an ISP you might see the upside.




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