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<blockquote data-quote="S.SubZero" data-source="post: 1753407" data-attributes="member: 51635">I love the utter paranoia and fear over this.&nbsp; I think it's mostly cuz of Trump, and there's an overwhelming need to loathe and despise him and everything he does, so here's just another thing.The first thing to keep in mind here, is that NOTHING CHANGED.&nbsp; You might think that *now* the ISPs are welcome to sell your data at will, but fun fact: they were allowed to yesterday, and last week, and last month, and last year.&nbsp; The FCC rules were not in effect yet.&nbsp; They weren't slated to be until later this year, and there wasn't even a firm date on that yet.&nbsp; The second thing is that it only applied to ISPs.&nbsp; Google and Facebook for example, who aren't ISPs, were not lumped into this.&nbsp; The ISPs argued before that they were being unfairly targetted by rules ONLY applying to them.As well, Comcast, Verizon, and others have already publicly stated that they have no intention of selling any more data than they already do (because the rule never included ALL data, just highly sensitive stuff).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S.SubZero, post: 1753407, member: 51635"] I love the utter paranoia and fear over this. I think it's mostly cuz of Trump, and there's an overwhelming need to loathe and despise him and everything he does, so here's just another thing. The first thing to keep in mind here, is that [b]NOTHING CHANGED[/b]. You might think that *now* the ISPs are welcome to sell your data at will, but fun fact: they were allowed to yesterday, and last week, and last month, and last year. The FCC rules [b]were not in effect yet[/b]. They weren't slated to be until later this year, and there wasn't even a firm date on that yet. The second thing is that it only applied to ISPs. Google and Facebook for example, who aren't ISPs, were not lumped into this. The ISPs argued before that they were being unfairly targetted by rules ONLY applying to them. As well, Comcast, Verizon, and others have already publicly stated that they have no intention of selling any more data than they already do (because the rule never included ALL data, just highly sensitive stuff). [/QUOTE]

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