re: The 265 members of Congress who sold you out to ISPs, and how much it cost to buy them

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this argument against this move would make me care more if it didn't just change things back to the way things worked before 2015

life went on and nobody gave a shite before the FCC took over control of this area

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A lot of people gave a shite, it just took a long time for the general public and the government to give a shite.


Lots of people have been fighting for online privacy for a long time. It's only now becoming a bigger issue because technology has made it so. The costs to store and analyze the data have come down, while simultaneously the data has become more valuable because the power is cheap and available to analyze it and target individuals. Useful data has always been valuable, but the vast amounts of raw data that pass through ISPs can now be cheaply made useful. It is becoming an economically viable product.

Again, a lot of people saw it coming. Now the day is here, and some people don't want to do anything about it.