Defend your Internet Privacy!

Hey Sup Forums,

Your ISP will start selling your Internet Browsing History on December 4

The US Senate yesterday voted to eliminate privacy rules that would have forced ISPs to get your consent before selling Web browsing history and app usage history to advertisers. Within a week, the House of Representatives could follow suit, and the rules approved by the Federal Communications Commission last year would be eliminated by Congress.

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Find your REPRESENTATIVE here and SEND THEM AN E-MAIL EXPRESSING YOUR DISSENT
house.gov/representatives/find/

Here is a sample e-mail. I will post some more in the replies below.

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Dear Representative,

Please do not bow down to special interests and vote NAY on the Joint Resolution (S.J. Res. 34). We the PEOPLE do not want to have our internet histories up for sale to the highest bidder, as not only is that a grotesque invasion of privacy on the level of an Orwellian society, but also an opportunity for corporations to grow more uncontrollable. How would you like it if someone was selling your browsing history to others, Representative? Please, even if it means breaking party lines, vote NAY on this new Joint Resolution.

Sincerely,

Your Name Here

It's capitalism. Fuck off commie

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mind your own business anglo

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THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW:

1) ISPs are in constant warfare with Google, Facebook, Netflix et al. These companies do NOT want ISPs to be able to charge more for extreme amounts of data that these companies utilize. Imagine a road where 90% of all traffic is from a few trucking companies. The people who own the road want them to pay for the space their using. Instead, the cost is passed on to you, the consumer. Your cable bill subsidizes Mark Zuckerberg. AND ISPs cannot let children's hospitals and other organizations have privileged levels of traffic, by law.

2) ISPs merely want to make money doing WHAT FACEBOOK AND GOOGLE ALREADY DO, which is sell your information to advertisers.

Don't get fooled.

Don't just send emails. Call them, too.

CALL
THEM

And if they have town hall meetings before the vote, GO TO THEM. They'll feel a lot more pressure this way.

I am not going to be a fucking lemming for internet companies. ISPs should be able to charge more for companies that use too much data, and ISPs should be allowed to sell data. Go to bed, Zuckerberg.

>2) ISPs merely want to make money doing WHAT FACEBOOK AND GOOGLE ALREADY DO, which is sell your information to advertisers.

The difference is that when you sign up for Facebook and Google, you agree that they may be able to sell your data, and it's only data from those sites (with the exception of their cookies on other sites that may also be tracking you). You also have a choice not to use those sites.

With this bill, EVERYTHING you do on the internet can be stored and sold to the highest bidder. And when that data is inevitably compromised, Slavy Slavov and Pingpong Chang will have all your browsing data as well.

Please, don't shill for the telecoms on Sup Forums.

How much are you getting paid?

If you have a Republican representative you should try to meet them in person

They already force you to accept contractually when you sign up. It's literally moot.

I'm not saying I love it, but the line has been crossed already. If you want that to change, repelling further legislation isn't the step you need to take. You need to advocate for further regulation.

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>capitalism
>hey user can we go through your mail and monitor where you travel at all times?

Redcoat scum strikes again

Lmao what the fuck do I even find
They'd mostly just find porn, Hearthstone videos, and a lot of shitposts.

Would Trump block this? I can't imagine most of America supports this. I think it would significantly boost his popularity while throwing the establishment under the bus.

>charge more
>hey goy, we're going to charge you 5 dollars a month to visit this website, if you want all ten we can create a package for 45 a month, thats 5 dollars youre saving goy

Who do you think will pay for it? Not the internet companies. Sure maybe the small websites, but the ISPs will always pick the weakest targets. Which is me, you, and any pleb who owns a small website.

Trump is in need of party loyalty right now on account of Trumpcare

it's the principle of the thing. Just because you have nothing to hide doesn't mean you'd allow someone to know everything about you

Is it capitalism to record your phone calls and sell them to advertisers?
Normally that's called wiretapping and is a crime.

But with the internet, it's now legal.

Do you have a licence for that post?

Bump.

The pre-net-neutrality scheme was charging the company more on their internet bill in combination with throttling their data if they didn't comply. There was a big lawsuit with netflix about it.

It's not even possible to track internet history past the https level...FAKE NEWS

are you fucking retarded?

This is so blatantly false it's hilarious. DNS lookups, for a start, give insight to someone's browsing habits, and are not encrypted by HTTPS.

Sure, they're cached, but those caches are flushed regularly by the OS, and they always reference back to a central government controlled source eventually.

...... do you know what Third-Party Cookies are??????? Do you know the vast amount of website information about you being collected and sold to advertisers???? What you stated, suggests that it doesn't already happen. There is absolutely NO privacy on the internet and there never will be, no matter what, there is always a guy reading the websites you go to, to figure out which advertisements to send you. Think of third party cookies, as keyloggers, they literally record everything you search. It's not the Internet Service Provider, that is to blame, it's third party advertisement groups. They literally get paid to learn about you, and to sell your data. No matter what website you visit, there is a 99% chance that it stores cookies on your computer hard-drive, and those cookies say A LOT about a person. They tend to use the cheap excuse that your personal private information isn't being sold off such as home addresses, phone numbers, SS#, but they are still diving into your privacy, you can learn a lot about a person just by looking at their cookies.

just deny baby. say you let your neighbor use your wifi

To be fair, it's mostly automated. People are sending out collections of cookies, and selecting vast swaths of them to sell as clusters for advertising.

As always, the best protection of your privacy is laziness on the parts of those with power to do you harm.