These are the 17 House Representatives that introduced a bill to let telecoms sell your personal internet history
Most Americans don’t know that telecoms and internet service providers store the internet history of their users; even more don’t know that recently introduced legislation aims to do away with privacy protections on this high value data. For years, the telecom industry has lobbied the government for the ability to sell your internet history to the highest bidder. On 3/7/17, Senator Jeff Flake and 22 other co-sponsors introduced S.J.Res 34, which would use the Congressional Review Act to strip away privacy protections voted in by the FCC last year and allow telecoms to sell the private internet history which they have on each of their Internet subscribers. One day later, on 3/8/17, Representative Marsha Blackburn introduced the House version of the bill (H.J.Res 86).
17 House Representatives that support a bill to let telecoms sell your internet history
Including the bill’s headliner, Representative Blackburn, the 17 House Representatives are:
– Rep. Flores, Bill [R-TX-17]
– Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
– Rep. Olson, Pete [R-TX-22]
– Rep. Lance, Leonard [R-NJ-7]
– Rep. Scalise, Steve [R-LA-1]
– Rep. Latta, Robert E. [R-OH-5]
– Rep. Guthrie, Brett [R-KY-2]
– Rep. Kinzinger, Adam [R-IL-16]
– Rep. Johnson, Bill [R-OH-6]
– Rep. Long, Billy [R-MO-7]
– Rep. Brooks, Susan W. [R-IN-5]
– Rep. Walters, Mimi [R-CA-45]
– Rep. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND-At Large]
– Rep. Collins, Chris [R-NY-27]
– Rep. Costello, Ryan A. [R-PA-6]
– Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-12]
– Rep. Shimkus, John [R-IL-15]
Before the (I’m just a) bill is presented to President Trump to sign into law, both S.J.Res 34 and H.J.Res 86 need to make it through their respective chambers of Congress. Letting your House Representative and Senators know to vote against H.J.Res 86 and S.J.Res 34, respectively, might be the only chance to keep your personal internet history private.
Through coordinated action in both houses, the anti-privacy camp has made their move. The only thing that can hold these politicians accountable for their actions against the best interests of their constituents, is the mass action of the people. Join Private Internet Access in supporting the EFF in calling on all Americans to heed the call and make the call: “Don’t let Congress Undermine Our Online Privacy.” When both H.J.Res 86 and S.J.Res 34 come to a vote, make sure to take note of which House Representatives and Senators vote which way. It is important, now more than ever, to hold politicians accountable for their stances and their actions.
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Southpark / so last season
Can’t wait to find out what type of freaky porn they’re all into in the aftermath. It’ll happen. I guarantee at least four of them are into midgets and spanking.
you can’t call them midgets anymore..they are munchinamericans !
The contents of HJ Res 86 and SJ Res 34 have nothing to do with this topic. HJ Res 86 (https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-joint-resolution/86/text) deals with election contributions. And SJ Res 34 (https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/34/text) is also totally unrelated.
Well, those resolutions don’t because they are part of the 112th and 114th congresses — this term is the 115th congress — so it would be more useful to link to those, not the old resolutions.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-joint-resolution/
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/
Or get a VPN……
Soon that will be illegal too. Because only terrorists and criminals would want to hide their internet activity.
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This is expected.
Or you know, this happens on both sides of the aisles…
Except if legislation benefits corporations and harms consumers, the R’s are unanimous.
even though it is proven democrats are more likely to take gifts from lobbyist, its okay to be ignorant concrete, it means you can learn how the real world works now http://dailycaller.com/2017…
You are going to have to support that contention. Hint: Links to Breitbart, Fox “news”, Flush Rimjob, The Savage Wiener, et al do not constitute “proof”.
PERFECT example of “only my news sites are legit” of course my sites aren’t completely biased towards my beliefs and are completely even on both sides of an issue
All the sources I cited print easily debunked bovine excrement all day, every day. I get my information from a wide spectrum of news sources, and I follow the linked source information as well. That is how I know the above listed sources are crap.
SOPA/PIPA supporters:
R — 26 (12 withdrew)
D — 37 (3 withdrew)
SOPA/PIPA opposition:
R — 16
D — 5
But yeah, continue believing the bullshit you see in media. Both parties are very eager to slide their dicks in people. It’s easier to do it if people are busy screaming at each other trying to prove their side is “better”, while in reality they’re on one side and should be working together.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_Congresspersons_who_support_or_oppose_SOPA/PIPA
That is an idiotic statement at best. One word.. Solyndra…
Not always true. Not here in California.
not in this case
Why is it expected? I’m confused why these representatives, most of whom I thougth I trusted, are pushing for this. What benefit does it give? Ughhhhh…….
yep
If you think Democrats don’t want to spy on you, you’re in hardcore denial. Hint: PRISM was which administration? Hint: what was Obama’s stance on encryption?
You’re thinking “us vs them” in terms of “red vs blue”. Think “us vs them” in terms of “people vs government”. While you waste your time fighting your fellow man, those upstairs watch and laugh.
PRISM was a Bush administration program started under the (supposed) authority granted by the USA PATRIOT Act (which was supported by most Democrats and nearly all Republicans in the House, and supported by all but one Senator, Democrat Russ Feingold – Democrats provided most of the opposition, but a strong majority of them did support it), and continued by Obama. Democrats are bad on this issue, but Republicans are categorically worse; “both sides” fails to capture the fact that there are degrees of bad, with the Republicans almost always worse.
You’re trying to convince the wrong person. Republicans thrive on us vs them. This is a sports game to them. Instead of trying to convince me that both parties are so horrible, try convincing republicans to vote in their own interests, which would be the same ones you and I have.
Dude, I’m not American, I come from a significantly different part of the world. It’s pretty obvious from here how corrupt and inhuman your both parties are (although I still regard your political system as one of the best we have, but most of the other countries are even in deeper shit). You guys have to face a fake choice. If you decide to stand behind any of the parties you’ve already lost. That’s by design.
Welcome to Republicanistan.