This is very important for everyone that I know, and everyone that they know, and so on. If you use the internet at all, this will affect you. Please do watch this.
What Ethan (man in the video) says, if you don't want to watch it, is that there is a bill currently going around in congress, "S.J. Res. 34" that repeals the FCC's “Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services”. What this does is that it allows your ISP (Internet Service Provider; i.e. Comcast, AT&T, etc.) to have the ability to sell your entire browsing history to the highest bidder. Anyone with enough $$$ could buy whatever you've searched and have possession of that knowledge, and then do whatever they want with it.
Now you may be thinking "Why should I care? My history is pretty vanilla." Well you SHOULD care because maybe loved ones you care about might be black mailed for whatever reason. Any public official could be held at a political gunpoint just because someone holds some spite to them, so they buy their browser history and threaten to release it.
This idea that such a private thing, the thoughts and curiosities of a person, can be bought, goes directly against the fundamental idea of Net Neutrality, or "the principle that Internet service providers and governments regulating the Internet should treat all data on the Internet the same, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication."
One of the worst things about this is this is all happening because Senators are being bought out by the big ISPs, like Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, and so on.
Where you're a Democrat, Republic, Independent, or something else entirely, this affects you. It is a pan-partisan issue that must be resolved.
There IS good news. It's only passed the Senate, and still needs to be voted on by the House of Representatives, and then signed off by President Trump, so there's still time to do something.
And here's what you can do: Write to, email, or call your state representatives. Tell them that you will not stand for this, that you strongly oppose it, or that you won't vote for them again if they vote for Yes on this bill. If you want something that'll possibly sound more legitimate, you could try "I'm your constituent, and I urge you to oppose the CRA resolution to kill the FCC's privacy rules." Or, something similar. It does not matter, you just need to get your point across.
If you need to find who is your representative so you can contact them, go to this site and put in your ZIP code, and it will tell you who represents your district.
http://www.house.gov/htbin/findrep
This is the bill itself.
https://www.congress.gov/…/…/senate-joint-resolution/34/text
Here's an article explaining the money-backing behind the senators behind the situation.
http://www.vocativ.com/411479/senators-online-privacy-money/
And here's a more organized group trying to stop the same thing, so if you want to help more, you can look in to them.
https://act.eff.org/…/don-t-let-congress-undermine-our-onli…
Please, whoever is reading this, do share this and tag as many people as you know in this. Again, this affects all of us, and when you begin to repeal parts of Net Neutrality, it may become a very slippery slope.
