US Officially Signs Away Internet Privacy Protections
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@scottalanmiller said in US Officially Signs Away Internet Privacy Protections:
@Dashrender said in US Officially Signs Away Internet Privacy Protections:
@DustinB3403 said in US Officially Signs Away Internet Privacy Protections:
I would say we're paying our MSPs to provide a specific service, they shouldn't attempt to bolster their income by selling my browsing history to advertisers for their own gain and offer the consumer nothing in return.
Well this is a complaint the ISP's (specifically wireless ones) are making. They don't seem themselves as selling a dumb pipe to the internet (even though that is EXACTLY what most of us want). For whatever reason, those ISPs feel that they can control the content that traverse their lines - This is something I just don't understand.
Because they are businesses and in the US, they can. Americans have not demanded strongly enough that this not be the case, therefore it is the case.
Do the people in other parts of the world actually demand this? or does the gov'ment just force this upon businesses, and ultimately the people like it, and keep voting those types of people into office?
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@Dashrender said in US Officially Signs Away Internet Privacy Protections:
Do the people in other parts of the world actually demand this?
Do you mean in Europe? China doesn't require this. Most of the world does not. In places like Europe, yes the people very much demand this of their government and the government does as it is supposed to.
It does in the US as well, the government is not disconnected from the people as much as everyone likes to claim. People just don't prioritize the same things.
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@scottalanmiller said in US Officially Signs Away Internet Privacy Protections:
@Dashrender said in US Officially Signs Away Internet Privacy Protections:
Do the people in other parts of the world actually demand this?
Do you mean in Europe? China doesn't require this. Most of the world does not. In places like Europe, yes the people very much demand this of their government and the government does as it is supposed to.
It does in the US as well, the government is not disconnected from the people as much as everyone likes to claim. People just don't prioritize the same things.
I'm having a hard time imaging what this looks like that Europe population is so much more involved than the US population. Are you telling us there are rallies where people stand around demanding that they keep privacy alive, that they make internet connections just dumb pipes? How is their citizenry so much more involved in these things than ours is?
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@Dashrender said in US Officially Signs Away Internet Privacy Protections:
I'm having a hard time imaging what this looks like that Europe population is so much more involved than the US population. Are you telling us there are rallies where people stand around demanding that they keep privacy alive, that they make internet connections just dumb pipes? How is their citizenry so much more involved in these things than ours is?
You are making leaps.
- Yes, they are far more involved. The US has a relatively uninvolved populace when it comes to politics. Even for the third world it's not very involved.
- Why would their be rallies when they've never had an issue? You are assuming that the government needs rallies to do its job. That can happen, but there is no reason to assume it. Most of Europe is very serious about privacy.
- The question is the opposite, I think. Why are so many Americans so uninvolved? Europeans tend to be as informed on US politics as Americans are, and moreso on their own. It should never be surprising that people take their governance seriously. It should be a question of why others do not.
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Pai weighs in with a fallacy that is demonstrably false.
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@coliver said in US Officially Signs Away Internet Privacy Protections:
Pai weighs in with a fallacy that is demonstrably false.
Wow - just wow - of course, you can make numbers say anything you want, can't you
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@Dashrender said in US Officially Signs Away Internet Privacy Protections:
@coliver said in US Officially Signs Away Internet Privacy Protections:
Pai weighs in with a fallacy that is demonstrably false.
Wow - just wow - of course, you can make numbers say anything you want, can't you
I guess he was referring to wireless carriers... which makes more sense. But that doesn't take the whole picture into account.
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Only 1306 days until the next presidential election, hopefully we can get this crap sorted out then...
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Does anyone else think he has a face like he's sitting on a bag of cash. Just "well screw american's I got paid!"
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@DustinB3403 said in US Officially Signs Away Internet Privacy Protections:
Does anyone else think he has a face like he's sitting on a bag of cash. Just "well screw american's I got paid!"
Pai? I can't tell if he actually is dogmatic or intelligent. Either way it doesn't bode well.
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@scottalanmiller said in US Officially Signs Away Internet Privacy Protections:
The US has a relatively uninvolved populace when it comes to politics. Even for the third world it's not very involved.
Some areas of the US have single digit participation rates... that's nearly unheard of in countries outside of authoritarian dictatorships
