It’s hard to defend legislation that undermines internet users’ essential privacy rights. But that hasn’t stopped the broadband industry and its many friends in Washington from trying.
Internet users took a hard loss this week in the fight for broadband privacy and internet freedom — but if you listen to the Republican lawmakers who trashed our privacy rights, you’d think they’d done the opposite.
Last night Congress voted to gut the Federal Communications Commission’s broadband-privacy rules, which were designed to prevent your internet service provider from selling your personal data (such as your web-browsing history) to advertisers and other companies without your consent.
This morning, more than a dozen protesters from Free Press, Demand Progress, Open Media, Popular Resistance and Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press took a stand for Net Neutrality at the FCC.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is jeopardizing opportunities for millions of low- and fixed-income households to connect to the internet. But there's a chance to fight back.
