(Conservative Review) — If you’ve been watching TV or on social media, you’ve heard that “Republicans are going to let Internet providers sell your browser history.”
It’s not true. Not even close.
What’s really happening is that a corrupt Google power grab from the Obama administration is being overturned.
Here’s the real history.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) until 2015 was the cop on the beat for Internet privacy, data security, and consumer protection broadly. The FTC had a well-developed framework that treated all the players the same way — Internet Service Providers (ISPs), search, advertising networks, and social media companies.
That all changed when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted on a 3-2 party-line vote to adopt Barack Obama’s plan to regulate the Internet like a public utility.
