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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsActivist finds the perfect way to turn tables on lawmakers who voted to repeal internet privacy rule
Republicans in Congress voted this week to gut a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) privacy rule that would sell everyone out to Internet Service Providers (ISP). The push will give ISPs the right to sell customer data to marketers, insert ads in your traffic, and insert tracking cookies in HTTP traffic that cant be deleted or traced.
Repealing the FCC guidelines is a huge blow to online privacy. So Adam McElhaney, an activist based in Chattanooga, Tennessee who cares about privacy and net neutrality set up a GoFundMe page to collect donations to buy the internet histories of everyone who voted to repeal the FCCs privacy protections.
The page is called Purchase Private Internet Histories.
I think that your private Internet history should be yours, McElhaney wrote on the page. I also believe your Internet should be neutral. I am raising money to help secure those freedoms.
McElhaney explained that because the Senate is gutting online privacy and allowing anyones internet histories to be purchased, I plan on purchasing the Internet histories of all legislators, congressmen, executives, and their families and make them easily searchable at searchinternethistory.com.
Everything from their medical, pornographic, to their financial and infidelity, McElhaney wrote. Help me raise money to buy the histories of those who took away your right to privacy for just thousands of dollars from telephone and ISPs. Your private data will be bought and sold to marketing companies, law enforcement.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/activist-finds-the-perfect-way-to-turn-tables-on-lawmakers-who-voted-to-repeal-internet-privacy-rule/?comments=disqus
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)If accomplished, it will keep DU in business for decades to come. "I found McConnell's turtle porn site!"
C_U_L8R
(45,018 posts)I hope Republicans like the taste of greed eggs and spam.
chillfactor
(7,580 posts)my social security check comes....I will donate! I do not think the idiotic recons realize they have opened themselves and their families to scrutiny as well..oh, joy!
Panich52
(5,829 posts)Duppers
(28,125 posts)is a distant cousin of mine.
iluvtennis
(19,868 posts)NewRedDawn
(790 posts)for the oligarchs.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(10,434 posts)Republicans will just find a way to exempt themselves. Everyone else's history will be available, but they will find a way to make it illegal to get theirs. That's all that will change.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)About 6200 donors at this early stage. The more people hear about it the more it will snowball.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Those $5 and $10 donations are really adding up.
TomVilmer
(1,832 posts)"If this shit passes I will buy the browser history of every congressman and congressional aide and publish it."
Max Temkin on Twitter.
Link to tweet
LisaL
(44,974 posts)TomVilmer
(1,832 posts)He has the money, the anger (and hopes that this gesture will dilute some bad stuff in his own search history).