Posted on 04/03/2017 11:51:10 AM PDT by johnk
Breitbart News spoke with Phil Kerpen, president of American Commitment, about his organization’s opposition to the FCC’s broadband privacy rule. Kerpen told Breitbart News that the criticism against removing this regulation is unwarranted.
“This is a deliberate disinformation campaign from the usual suspects from the tech-left and the media, and they’re completely misrepresenting the issue, and the conservatives are falling for the fake news narrative,” he told Breitbart News. “Up until 2015, the FTC protected consumer privacy, and then the FCC Net Neutrality order eviscerated the consumer protections at the FTC by pre-empting FTC’s jurisdiction. The FCC then came around and hammered ISP’s with draconian regulations that do not apply to Google or Facebook.”
“This is especially concerning, considering they have considerably more access to your personal data than Comcast or Verizon,” Kerpen explained. “It’s insane that Google and Facebook have a near duopoly in the advertising game and they have less stringent rules in terms of what they can do with your private information.”
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They are trying to put the net back under FTC not FCC control.
“This is a deliberate disinformation campaign from the usual suspects from the tech-left and the media, and they’re completely misrepresenting the issue, and the conservatives are falling for the fake news narrative,”
Freeing the Internet and restarting the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage in addition to all the other stuff.
This is what winning looks like!
SNOWY!
Wow I wasn’t aware of the Yucca Mountain deal, that is really good news.
I was aware of the super clean coal plants firing up again!
It amazing how just the desire not to destroy our country is allowing the U.S. resurgence.
If he only hits on 20 per cent he would be the best president in 30 years.
MAGA.
As an aside, I like the restarting of Yucca Mountain, but I think it should be renamed. How about the "Harry Reid Waste Depositary?"
So, help me understand...can my ISPs sell my search and website visit info, or not?
Redundant. But I like the idea.
It still sounds like we are taking a step backwards as far as internet privacy. Wish there was an explanation, without a bunch of 3 letter agencies being bandied about, that gave some comfort that we aren’t being opened up to more 3rd party spying...
Yes. Obama exempted Google and Facebook from the rules, giving them an unfair advantage. Trump just “leveled the playing field.”
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