If you were awake yesterday, then you heard that the Washington branch of the Politburo, aka the House of Representatives agreed with their comrades in the Senate to block the fair, American made rules that protected your internet privacy.
When asked why they, the party of closet pedophiles, infidelity and corruption, would vote to end this important protection, the GOP/New Russia lemmings said "Oh pish posh, big advertisers and search engines are watching all the time. This is no change."
That partially true lie-answer masks the reality that search engines don't follow you if you don't use them. On the other hand, Congress placed your right to not be watched on a platter and handed it to the Internet providers.
This is a HUGE change. Unlike a search engine or website, the provider has to know where you visit online, everywhere, always, because you have to ask them to take you there. When you type in a website address or click on a link, you tell your provider where you want to go, no matter how awful or innocent it is.
By ending your privacy yesterday, it was as if Congress bugged your car or hired your Uber driver to report back to some government agency your every trip. The ISPs have all your web surfing information and, ironically and comically, all of Congress's. Every one of those bone-heads is now subject to a hack on an ISP that will reveal just how awful and perverted many of them are.
What used to be their little secrets, hidden by using a fake name, will now be flayed open. And that is what they thought they wanted for you. But they use the internet too. I bet they didn't even think about that risk. In addition the ISPs now can interfere with your internet banking, legal research, searches about your medical symptoms, and see your emails to your girlfriend you hide from your wife? Tinder? Ashley Madison? All your searches will be available to the feds, all the time, for all of us.
"Her emails" are nothing. The Golden Age of Wikileaks is on us now. Though as I write, I think it may be wise to simply stop using the web. Period.
And make no mistake, the providers who can now spy on you freely, AT&T, Verizon, T Mobile, Spectrum, Comcast; they absolutely will. Why? Because in exchange for this new ability to get into your business, those providers promised Congress they would always hand over the information to any government agency without a court order.
"You want what officer? Sure, here you go."
Apple fought in court to protect your privacy. Microsoft too. What's-App and others also refuse to give up your privacy. But they aren't regulated utilities. AT&T? Verizon? A different story. They'll serve you up like a nicely broiled salmon.
Another bonus from Congress to their new phone and cable company spies is that a pending merger in telecommunications or cable, or both, will now move forward unfettered by the federal government. The new behemoths will essentially become State internet. Oh yeah. This is America getting great alright.
If you voted for these guys, who are like trash-bag searching identity thieves, then you are getting what you deserved.
If you thought losing your health insurance was okay when you elected these wise-guys, then how about revealing your internet history, and everything you look at from here on out? Will your embarrassing or potentially illegal interests or affairs be laid bare at the worst possible time? It is now entirely possible.
It takes a crisis to make people see the truth. Maybe you see it now. This is a crisis with a savage effect. Demand that congress immediately make a law, not a regulation, denying ISPs the ability to track your life.
