gabe@gabegold.com
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 18:56:53 -0500
After lobbying Congress to repeal consumer privacy protections over ISPs,
Verizon wants the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to do it a favor
and preempt states from restoring their privacy rights. While Congress
repealed the previous FCC's privacy rule, it left the underlying Section 222
intact. As a result, dozens of state bills were then introduced to restore
broadband privacy, mirroring Section 222 of the Communications Act.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/11/verizon-asks-federal-communications-commission-prohibit-states-protecting-user
Long item, and unless I missed it here, no argument quoted from Verizon
WHY this should be done -- just claiming that FCC can do it. Maybe there's
implication that protecting privacy would (implausibly) impede something
good... broadband rollout, kittens and rainbows, etc.