Quote: (03-24-2017 02:03 PM)Samseau Wrote:
I think you guys are reading into this news backwards.
The reason these rules are being suspended isn't so employers can know more about you per se, but so monopolies like Google cannot hoard all the digital information for themselves. I looked up Ajit Pai's agenda and found this:
https://www.benton.org/blog/what-more-do...ais-agenda
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Chairman Pai outlined four guiding regulatory principles:
The Importance of Digital Empowerment and the “Democratization of Entrepreneurship”: “I believe in the power of Internet-based technologies to create jobs, grow our economy, and improve people’s lives in countless ways.“
Ubiquitous Access to Digital Opportunity: “I believe that every American who wants to participate in our digital economy should be able to. Access to digital opportunity shouldn’t depend on who you are or where you’re from...As Chairman, I plan to focus more time and attention than the FCC traditionally has on places where people feel left behind—places that Washington too often looks past.”
A Competitive Free Market Unleashes Private-Sector Ingenuity: “The public interest is best served when the private sector has the incentives and freedom to invest and create. That’s why we must eliminate unnecessary barriers to investment that could stifle new discoveries and services. In particular, the government should aim to minimize regulatory uncertainty, which can deter long-term investment decisions.”
The Free Market Doesn’t Mean that Government Has No Role: “I believe that a healthy respect for the free market doesn’t mean that government has no role. For example, the FCC must protect consumers and promote public safety.”
Most readers will agree that the Internet is a powerful tool for entrepreneurship, opportunity, and innovation. But Chairman Pai falls short on extolling the benefits of the Internet beyond economic gains. The Internet opens more avenues for civic engagement, creates easier access to healthcare and education, and connects communities to strengthen the social fabric of our society. Pai’s guiding regulatory principles are economically motivated: help entrepreneurs, help potential consumers, free up the marketplace. Chairman Pai says, “Access to digital opportunity shouldn’t depend on who you are or where you’re from.” Why not add “or how much you earn”?
Fact is, the current privacy laws give us no privacy: the CIA and NSA know what porn you watch. The only thing the current privacy laws do is make sure tech giants like Zuckbook and Gurgle can keep all advertising information to themselves.
I'm not sure why you quoted that wall of text, Samseau. It's standard boilerplate platitudes that provide absolutely zero insight. Competitive markets, blah blah, innovation, blah blah, social fabric blah blah. My life force has been drained just by reading that shit.
Look. Is the situation today bad, with Google and the alphabet soup agencies spying on us 24/7? Sure, it's bad. Is that a good reason for a Trump-appointed IRT to make it even worse by letting ISPs sell all our traffic to the highest bidder? No, it's not. It's a terrible development. The previous situation was bad, but the Trump IRT has made it worse.
There is nothing any of us can do about the NSA or CIA but chances are we'll never be worthwhile targets for them. Google we can use or not use. But the ISPs? There is no other way to access the internet except through them, and they are aware of every single bit of traffic that we generate. Now the Trump IRT has made it legal for ISPs to sell our traffic to whoever they want, and that can include Antifa, George Soros, Buzzfeed, etc. The Trump IRT has literally made it a legal thing for Antifa to ask your ISP if you have ever visited rooshvforum.network and for the ISP to give them that information. That is fucked up and a dick move by the Trump admin given that it is his supporters that are likely to be fucked over by this.