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Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)
Fri Apr 14, 2017, 03:44 PM Apr 2017

GOP Rep defends Trump attack on internet privacy: Nobodys got to use the internet

http://shareblue.com/gop-rep-defends-trump-attack-on-internet-privacy-nobodys-got-to-use-the-internet/


Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) offered a strangely antiquated defense of Donald Trump’s recent decision to roll back an Obama-era protection that stopped internet providers from selling information about their customer’s browsing habits.

When a concerned voter at Sensenbrenner’s town hall asked about Trump’s assault on internet privacy, Sensenbrenner told her “nobody’s got to use the internet.”

VOTER: Facebook is not comparable to an ISP. I do not have to go on Facebook. I do have one provider. I live two miles from here, and I have one choice. I don’t have to go on Google. My ISP provider is different from those providers.

SENSENBRENNER: Well, you know, again, nobody’s got to use the internet. You know, the thing is that if you start regulating the internet like a utility, if you did that right at the beginning, we would have no internet. And internet companies have invested an awful lot of money and have almost universal service now. The fact is, I don’t think it’s my job to tell you that you cannot get advertising or your information being sold. My job, I think, is to tell you that you have the opportunity to do it, and then you take it upon yourself to make the choice that government should give you. That’s what the law has been, and I think we ought to have more choices rather than fewer choices, with the government controlling our everyday lives.


http://shareblue.com/gop-rep-defends-trump-attack-on-internet-privacy-nobodys-got-to-use-the-internet/


What a huge ass ........... why does this man have a web site??
The internet is important ............ does he not realize this??
How can one survive well in this world without internet??
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GOP Rep defends Trump attack on internet privacy: Nobodys got to use the internet (Original Post) Angry Dragon Apr 2017 OP
I guess he doesn't any businesses in his district use the internet underpants Apr 2017 #1
How does the destruction of privacy equal more choice? TBA Apr 2017 #2
That would be a good question for him ............. Angry Dragon Apr 2017 #3
And if my information is being sold.. KatyMan Apr 2017 #4
because the republicans took it all Angry Dragon Apr 2017 #6
Tubes! He's of the era when the innernets consisted of "tubes"! procon Apr 2017 #5
Wisconsin has been lost since Walker took over Angry Dragon Apr 2017 #7
another one of our Wisconsin Fucks jodymarie aimee Apr 2017 #8
they seem to have a lifetime supply of supid pillls Angry Dragon Apr 2017 #9
K&R silverweb Apr 2017 #10
Wisconsin Man thinks people should apply for jobs with stamps and envelopes dalton99a Apr 2017 #11

procon

(15,805 posts)
5. Tubes! He's of the era when the innernets consisted of "tubes"!
Fri Apr 14, 2017, 04:13 PM
Apr 2017

No wonder the poor man is so out of touch.

silverweb

(16,402 posts)
10. K&R
Fri Apr 14, 2017, 11:25 PM
Apr 2017

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]He needs to face a room full of very angry constituents, and be deluged with outraged calls, letters, and emails. I hope this corporate tool creep's words are publicized far and wide.

What's worse, he's minimizing the situation by saying it's for "advertising." It's for a whole lot more than that.



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