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Machiavellian on 31 March 2017
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fatslob-:O said:
Nymeria said:

Except, for many Americans there is no "other ISP" they can switch to due to monopolies in areas.  This is also why after Time Warner bought up the local internet companies my internet went from $20 to $30 to $40 to $60/month over past three years for the exact same speed and worse service.

Then start up your own ISP ... 

Machiavellian said:

So exactly how do people who only have one ISP do what you are suggesting.  Also since all the players do not have to disclose what they are doing how will you know who is selling your info.  What you will see is that now there will be a tiered system where you will need to spend more money for a VPN in order to op out of this crap.  When all said and done, the question is not if you are concerned about what just went down, it's what are you going to do to show you are concerned.

Anyway, Republicans feel people will forget about this and keep voting down party lines so they are good to go or there will be the apologist who just find a way to rationalize what happen.  Either way, we will see if that majority is kept if they continue to go for the money.

@Bold Look at my response in the above post ... 

You already know who is selling your info, check with the ISP you registered with ...  

And the question is very much if you are concerned with what went down. People need to understand the ramifications of relying on other peoples infrastructure. Personally speaking I'm okay with the compromise considering since the likes of Microsoft and Apple has even more capabilities to invade our digital privacy than what this bill could ever do for ISPs when OSVs have backdoors to your Windows system, Xbox One, and iOS ...  

So basically what you are in favor of is nothing.  You either start somewhere or nowhere and you are more than happy keeping things the same because of what someone else can do.  This is my issue, your privacy and data has to start somewhere and dismissing the actions we see as purely benefiting corporation greed instead of consumer interest is why we continue to make no inroads in such things.  There is no comproise going on here since this rule takes us back instead of forward.