“Conservative litmus tests:
1. Does this law create more freedom or less freedom?
2. Does this law force one person to pay for another person (i.e., less freedom for the responsible payer)?”
How then do you judge the GOP bill repealing the Obama regulation preventing internet service providers from selling the browsing history and identities of their customers? 1) It creates more freedom for the corporations selling internet services (the Supreme Court ruled corporations are people in Citizens United) while at the same time it infringes on an individual breathing person’s 4th amendment right to privacy.
2) The customer of the ISP (the individual citizen) pays for the service yet has no right to privacy with respect to his use of the service. The ISP can generate revenue selling information about the customer.
While the president has not yet signed the repeal of the Obama privacy order, the White House has signaled he will. In this case freedom of the corporation wins, and freedom for the individual loses.
I’m not an expert on this, but to me, freedom is for individuals first and corporations second.
By the sound of this, it is one of the few 0vomit regulations I could agree with. Perhaps 0vomit didn’t like competition for “his” FBI, CIA, NSA from private corporations. Because I can’t think of any benevolent motive he has ever had toward Americans on anything.
Geez, really, the 4th Amendment protects you from your ISP? Please go read it and the rest of them. You will see that they proscribe government action. Free people are free. You can play with the ISP if you want or not. They can ask you to stand bare ass naked in front of your pc’s camera if they want. Both parties are free to do as they wish without government interference.