Donald Trump Signs Controversial Internet Privacy Bill
Source: Mediaite
Donald Trump has signed a controversial measure that would allow Internet providers to more easily sell user data to third parties without their consent. The repeal of the Obama-era FCC regulation passed through Congress along narrow party-line votes.
The repeal was a major win for Internet providers like Version and Comcast, which will now have similar to carte blanche access to user data as web companies like Google and Facebook. The Obama-era rule, which had not yet taken effect, would have required companies to receive user permission before selling their data to third parties.
President Trump and Congress have appropriately invalidated one part of the Obama-era plan for regulating the Internet, said FCC chairman Ajit Pai, a Trump appointee. Those flawed privacy rules, which never went into effect, were designed to benefit one group of favored companies, not online consumers.
Democrats and civil libertarian lobbied strenuously and unsuccessfully against the measure. The move from Trump is part of a robust, though under the radar, effort to shake up the way Americans receive Internet services. Congressional Republicans have already signaled their intention to overturn so-called Net Neutrality, which requires Internet providers to create equal access to all online content.
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I guess the Redeploricans feel it's okay if some private entity is profiting off of the data instead of the Government using it for National Security reasons.
Oh, Hypocrisy... Your name is Republican. 
