These are the 23 Senators that introduced a bill to let telecoms sell your private internet history
Protection of your Internet history is up in the air thanks to new, pending legislation. A new bill coming before Senate aims to completely dismantle the FCC’s ability to enact data security or online privacy protections for consumers under the powers of the Congressional Review Act. Senate Joint Resolution (S.J.Res 34) was introduced by Arizona Senator Jeff Flake and cosponsored by 23 other Senators. Its goal is to remove all the hard-earned net neutrality regulations gained to protect your internet history from advertisers and and worse. Specifically, the FCC had been able to prevent internet service providers (ISPs) from spying on your internet history, and selling what they gathered, without express permission. This legal protection on your internet history is currently under attack thanks to these 23 Senators and lots of ISP lobbying spend. While S.J.Res 34 has support from two dozen Republican Senators, Senators willing to champion the privacy of Americans’ internet history have also come out of the woodwork.
The House version of this bill is H.J.Res 86.
These 23 Senators want to let your internet history be sold
The list of 23 Senators cosponsoring this bill, including Senator Jeff Flake, is:
– John Barrasso (R-Wyo.)
– Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.)
– Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)
– John Boozman (R-Ark.)
– Shelly Moore Capito (R-W.Va.)
– Thad Cochran (R-Miss.)
– John Cornyn (R-Texas)
– Tom Cotton (R-Ark.)
– Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
– Deb Fischer (R-Neb.)
– Orrin Hatch (R-Utah)
– Dean Heller (R-Nev.)
– James Inhofe (R-Okla.)
– Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.)
– Mike Lee (R-Utah)
– Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
– Pat Roberts (R-Kan.)
– Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)
– Richard Shelby (R-Ala.)
– Dan Sullivan (R-Ala.)
– John Thune (R-S.D.)
– Roger Wicker (R-Miss.)
– Jerry Moran (R-Kan.)
Some politicians understand that S.J.Res 34 is a step back for Internet privacy
Today, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai appeared before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee for a hearing about Oversight of the FCC. While online privacy was not much on the agenda, it was very much on the minds of many Senators that oppose the end of net neutrality. Afterwards, according to PC World’s Grant Gross, Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey said:
“I fear [the privacy rollback] is just a preview of coming attractions. Big broadband companies don’t want to give consumer privacy protections the attention they deserve.”
Senator Markey also issued a statement specifically against Senator Flake’s resolution blocking FCC regulation of ISPs:
“Consumers will have no ability to stop Internet service providers from invading their privacy and selling sensitive information about their health, finances, and children to advertisers, insurers, data brokers or others who can profit off of this personal information, all without their affirmative consent.”
In a separate statement, Hawaiian Senator Brian Schatz said:
“If this [resolution] is passed, neither the FCC nor the FTC will have clear authority when it comes to how Internet service providers protect consumers’ data privacy and security.”
The end goal of passing ISP regulation onto the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will require further Congressional action, another privacy damaging step that is inevitably coming this year. Private Internet Access is supporting the EFF in calling all Americans to heed the call: “Don’t let Congress Undermine Our Online Privacy.” When S.J.Res 34 comes to a vote, make sure to take note of which Senators vote which way. It is important to hold politicians accountable for their stances and their actions.
Editor’s note: Senator Ron Johnson is listed as a cosponsor twice by Senator Flake’s official announcement of S.J.Res 34 on his website. There are only 23 Senators sponsoring this bill.
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& Ron Johnson from Wisconsin, needs a corn cob pounded up his ass, too ! (no KY for old Ron)
Not good for those of us who have very visual images. Lol
The information is incomplete. Their personal home address as well as the floor plans should also be posted.
And a blueprint of my keys. You know, to get through the front door.
Huge megacorporations and multinationals getting what THEY want in government over what THE PEOPLE want? My word… These upside-down commie corps need to be reigned in.
did you call corporations upside down communists? lmfao THIS is exactly the type of things corporations do when they have no one to answer to. This is pure Capitalism.
Capitalism? More like corporatism… In capitalism, corporations answer to us – we bare the responsibility to make it happen through our wallets and the courts if needed. That is NOT what is happening, we currently have the corporations CONTROLLING the government because the government has power that can be purchased.
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No, that is exactly what capitalism is and has always been.
Capitalism never was accountant to the people.
Yes it is. People buy what they sell no market? No corporation. It’s simple.
Quasi monolpolies like this are where your rights disappear make it harder for let say encrypted isp services to start.
Where there’s muck, there’s geldt. Look that up.
Capitalism never has and never will serve the working class – or, even, other than incidentally, the middle class. The middle class has existed at the pleasure of the “upper” classes and always has.
Where the aristocracy, or in our case the 1% – because it’s now all about how much money you have and not at all about your genetic lineage – wants to allow the middle class to exist, it will.
But as now, where it finds the middle class an impediment, as the current administration does, the middle class – or all but the very upper echelons of it, that the upper class finds useful – will be decimated.
Globalists believe even our welfare recipients are the 1%
Please keep this in mind.
Class is now global not national.
The Globalist democrats have you yelling at yourself. You are the 1%.
Fake Post!
fake post? no this is a real bill and those named above really did sponsor it. I can understand your problem Tin Man, your a trump voter and you hate how he’s raping you. Shhh it’s ok snowflake just remember You wanted this all of it.
Fake Post. Did you up vote yourself? 1-0
Good lord, try using your keyboard to type something useful, like “Joint resolution 34 2017” into Google.
Let me spare you some trouble – https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/34/text?format=txt
that’s a link to the condensed version, because I know you Trump supporters can’t read past the headline.
Look at those shameful Republicans that Trump is being forced to work with. These folks on the list are the opposite of POPULISTS. Trump needs Democrats to come to his side especially when he needs support for TARIFFS and reviving the American Industrial Sector/MAGA.
Democrats, I supported Bernie and then switched to Trump. There are millions of folks just like me who don’t see the party affiliation as central but who want an America First policy that is good for American Workers, the refuse of the world be damned! Come over to The Donald! He needs the Pro-Worker Democrats in his coalition.
what the hell does any of this have to do with rolling back internet privacy?
stop threadshitting.
I am pointing out that the folks that are Anti-Populist are the folks the Democrats are forcing Trump to have to work with. This list is all Republican.
I’d be happy to join the Trump side if he supported even a fraction of the policies that Bernie did. Trump 100% supports this Senate resolution, and his FCC appointee has made clear that he intends to completely squash all policies and regulations that come close to net neutrality.
Trump’s entire populist platform is a ruse. Many of his closest advisors and cabinet picks are picked straight from the Goldman Sachs executive office and resolutions like this and the recent financial regulation repeals are just the start of a massive shift of power and wealth to big business and global elites he pretended to be fighting against.
“Open Borders is a Koch Brothers Program” – Bernie Sanders.
Can you show us where his policy is reverting to anything even close to public good?
Actually, Shirley, that would be the chore of those who advocate for open borders to prove their case that mass illegal immigration is a net benefit for this generation and generations to come.
For, as you know, it is impossible to prove a negative and that is why the burden of proof is on those making positive, not negative, claims.
I will say this though. Since Reagan’s amnesty the US Work force has seen little to no wage advancement, rise in purchasing power and the gap between rich and poor as grown. Cheap labout/(oversupply of labour) in the setting of limited jobs is bound to do that based on a classical understanding of economics. There has been 3+ decades of no real wage increase. This is a problem.
overdose alert …you drank too much of the kool-aid and you have stopped all reasonable thinking. You don’t really believe that “The Donald really cares about the American Worker. His cabinet is made up of Reitbart,Wall Street …and Goldman Sax big shots …men that never really did one day of hard labor….sat in executive offices of banks and insurance companies …led up hedge funds to make themselves richer. They get all the tax break and you get your pensions sold out from under you. You get to be unemployed …you get to work for less than half of what you used to make and are expected to thank him. He wont ever raise the minimum wage yet he gives the very rich 200 thousand dollar tax break. Open your eyes . He betrays America to please Russia …for money and the right to do business with them. So he can get richer. Not to enrich your life or the lives of people you care about.He pretends to care about Veterans but didnt listen to them when they wanted the same guy in charge of Veteran’s affairs.He has allotted nothing to aid Military families. Donald Trump cares about Donald Trump …you are just important at election time .
Raising the minimum wage is a BAD way to raise wages. The way the US raised up a middle-class was not by minimum wages! Come on! You use supply and demand curves to generate wage growth.
The way you raise wages is that you restrict cheap labour, stop what Bernie called the “Koch Brothers Program” of open borders and H1B visa scabs, and you force industry back to the USA (and thus increase job demand) via the return to TARIFFS which once were a mainstay of US Trade policy for over 200years.
And all you have is a tribal affiliation with the Democrat Party and insults about kool aide? It is you who know too little making you vulnerable to bad ideas.
Yeah, actually the middle class was largely built on Union labor, which, by the way WAS minimum wage. Check your history of labor in the 50’s and 60’s
BINGO! I totally agree. And FDR kicked out the Mexican laborers in the American South West. Don’t leave that out of the equation.
Limiting the workforce and allowing for collective bargaining in the setting of TARIFFS = MIDDLE CLASS.
All of those features are required to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. Write to President Trump and remind him that Union labour was a key to his victory.
How can you expect people like those that Trump chose to work with, people who have always been great promoters of globalization, how can you expect one single second those people to bring work back to the US and to care about US workers?
” how can you expect one single second those people to bring work back to the US”
I don’t expect “those people” to do that. I expect the WALL and Border Enforcement and the reinstatement of TARIFFS to raise up the prosperity of the American work force. Those policies are what have to happen for MAGA to occur. TARIFFS and the limiting of labour to Americans is the key.
Did Trump choose the folks who will get that done? Maybe. Maybe not. But your intransigence as a Democrat to any policy with Trump’s name attached is an evil. It is a substitution of tribalism for principles. I hope you can see that and be the change you demand of others.
The first mistake you made was in thinking that Hillary was not pro worker and that’s why we have Trump who can’t seem to find his ass with both hands and a road map and all thanks to you you stupid arsed berniebro.
> Hillary was not pro worker
Hillary was “pro” just one thing and that was Pro-Hillary. You would have to be blind not to see the past 4 decades of neoLiberalism as anything other than anti-American Worker.
I can see that your delusion is deep seated. If you even half assed an investigation into Hillary you’d have found your claim not to be true.
She was pushing open borders, Globalism, and the TPP. Hillary = Bill = Obama = Jeb = George = Ryan on the topic of pushing globalism and corporatism. What you folks are engineering is a self fulfilling prophecy of Trump working with the worst corporatists, The Republicans, the people who AlSO opposed him. Instead of extending an olive branch on issues we should have mutual agreement on, you crafted a Hitler narrative about Trump which now prevents you from seeing what might be in your own best interests.
It is tragic.
RNC = DNC. They are playing Good Cop/Bad Cop. If that has not yet occurred to you then I hope it will sometime soon.
Keep spinning, imposter.
Shut up Trumper you’re all lies and so is your billionaire anti-hero.
Let me know when you figure out Bill Clintons Skull and Bones mentor after college was HW Bush.
Let me know when you figure out that we were talking about Hillary.
Novictim is not a Bernie supporter and never has been. He thinks that he can play the part and try to get millennials to go along with Trump’s auctioning of America to the highest bidder because he seems to think that they don’t have a grasp of the issues at hand or an understanding of the bullshit that Trump is trying to pull.
You sir, are a complete imposter, and no one believes your bullshit. Go try to sell the virtues of Trumpism somewhere else.
Speaking like you know me when you don’t makes you the imposter.
im·pos·tor
imˈpästər/Submit
noun
noun: imposter
a person who pretends to be someone else in order to deceive others, especially for fraudulent gain.
Democrats support Trump?. I”m thinking when hell freezes over. Trump is in the processes of burning everything that the Democrats stand for, safety net, lower student loans, health care, and then he accuses Obama of a Felony. Get real, Donald will burn you up just as well.
“Democrats stand for”
Open Borders? Islamization? The out-sourcing of Jobs? H1B Visa throat cutting of the professional classes?
Why the hell would any decent American support any of these things? The DNC is RNC lite. Trump is not either of these. The sooner you drop your tribal affiliations and identify what is actually good for your fellow Americans, the better.