tue4t wrote:SilverEagle wrote:Martin Hash wrote:Another Trump fuckup. How does this privacy violation benefit Joe American?
It doesn't. Just another tool to finish off what is left of our freedom. Land of the Free my ass!
To be fair, if it passes you'll technically be more free than before. Freedom to either knowingly sell your isp data, choose another isp that won't sell your data if you can/want to, or use a VPN. It isn't mandating that you sell your history. A lot of outrage will be misdirected at trump if he signs it as is looking likely. That rage should really be directed at the ISP's. It's not a violation as much as it is a removal of a statutory protection that people previously relied upon in making their contracts - those contracts will need to be looked at again.
Regardless, even from my libertarian biased perspective, it's pretty low on the list for repeal compared to say corporate tax.
Politically, he's making a huge mistake though. This won't be popular within his base. Spending huge ammounts of political capital on small things that will be spun/speculated very negatively.
Like many a libertarian idea, there's the fantasy and then there's the reality. Most Americans don't have choices for their ISP like you are suggesting, and if they do it's between the phone company and cable company. TOR or a VPN is simply not a solution and you can't expect people to cut themselves off from the internet, so the "if you don't like it, you shouldn't use the internet!" is really an asinine thing to suggest. Millions of people require the internet for work or school and they don't have a choice. And I should say, that people are
already furious with their ISPs; their double, triple, and quadruple dipping is just infuriating people even more. The bottom line is that they're taking what isn't theirs. I was sold on a pipe to the internet, nobody asked me for my private data and they're selling it. There is nothing free about this. The shills man...
If your data is collected by your ISP, its going to get hacked. This is such a dumb, terrible idea.