Last week, on a party-line vote, the Senate voted to repeal
the Federal Communications Commission’s 2016 broadband privacy rules
giving consumers the power to choose how their ISPs use and share their
personal data. Today, the House of Representatives will vote, and if the
House also votes to repeal the rules, the bill will go to President Trump, who is expected to sign it.
The stark consequences of repeal are Orwellian: ISPs like Comcast,
AT&T, and Charter WILL sell your personal information to
the highest bidder. All of your personal search history, the web pages you visit, every video you watch, all of it will be the property of a corporation. You will no longer have no say over your personal data and to whom it is sold. No one, not your Congressmen, not your Senator, not even the president will be able to
protect you.
The Federal Trade Commission has no legal authority to
oversee ISP practices, and the bill under consideration will permanently cripple the
FCC by denying it the future ability to overturn such legislation. So, unless the bill
fails, highly unlikely due to politicians being bought off by the ISP's, the nation’s strongest privacy protections will not
only be eliminated, but they will be unable to be revived by the FCC.
How to stop the Draconian take over of YOUR Online Data
The life and eath struggle of American's Internet freedom is not yet lost. The House votes today! Stand up! Tell, yell, shout, send smoke signals, faxes, telegrams, emails, phone calls, do ANYTHING to get YOUR
Representatives attention. Don’t let the Fascist Corporations rob American's of OUR hard-won
protections.
Color of Change, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Free Press have simple ways for YOU to inform your Representative what YOU think of the FCC’s rules and Congress’ efforts to eliminate them.
