First, an explanation of what the Senate did yesterday, from
PCGamer:
Well, this is bullshit. Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate just voted to
overturn a set of privacy rules that were written in 2016 to prevent
Internet service providers from sharing (selling, really) your Internet
usage information, including your browsing history, The Washington Post reports.
Oh,
it gets worse. The rules only existed in the first place because the
FCC implemented them last year, then under the leadership of chairman
Tom Wheeler. As written, ISPs and wireless carries such as Comcast and
AT&T must get permission from customers in order to share their
personal information, including which websites they frequent. Today the
Republican-led Senate voted 50-48 on a joint resolution that would not only rescind those rules, but bar the FCC from passing similar consumer protections in the future.
Who voted how? With two nonvotes (Thank you Rand Paul and Johnny Isakson) the short summary is this: no Dems or Independents voted for this outrage, only Republicans. Two GOP senators didn't vote:
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