JRPGfan on 30 March 2017
| SpokenTruth said: I just wonder how bills like this are even thought up, drafted, approved for vote and then actually voted into law. Someone had to sit there and think, "I want a law that will allow ISPs to sell user browser history." But of course, that's not how it happens. An ISP writes up the bill, throws a bunch of money at some congressmen and urges them to push it in Congress. |
A lobbist that works for big companies that want to make money selling it, go around and "talk" to politicans, and discretely offer them bags of money.
That would be my guess.
*edit:
| sparticus112b said: "The only people who seem to want this are the people who are going to make lots of money from it. (Hint: they work for companies like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T.) Incidentally, these people and their companies routinely give lots of money to members of Congress. So here is a list of the lawmakers who voted to betray you, and how much money they received from the telecom industry in their most recent election cycle." http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15100620/congress-fcc-isp-web-browsing-privacy-fire-sale |
Yep.... names and how much they "cost" to buy.
Disgracefull that companies can "buy" away peoples freedom in the USA.
