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Telecom Lobbyists Have Stalled 70 State-Level Bills
- Latteland 8y agoIn California and Washington state, they have a lot of initiatives. I think an initiative might be a better way to get pro-consumer changes. We did already pass a net neutrality bill in Washington.
- nerpderp83 8y agoIs there a Seattle EFF chapter? The ACLU and the EFF could co-host some events at Town Hall.
- gregimba 8y agoAnd some of those initiatives are horribly written by people who have no expertise whatsoever writing laws. WA is a great example of this with some of the most recent Gun Control policies would actually violate WA state's constitution.
- Latteland 8y agoCan you elaborate on the problems with the gun control initative and what you'd change to fix it?
- munchbunny 8y agoI think one very likely cause for telecoms being vehemently against privacy legislation is that both AT&T and Verizon are trying very hard to enter the adtech market. They are hoping that first party customer data combined with more traditional third party cookie data will give them a competitive edge, but it'll only happen if they are allowed to use all of that data in the first place. I used to work in ad tech, and this kind of stuff was responsible for my steady disillusionment with advertising as an industry. While the argument could be made that marketing/advertising can be benign, it's quite obvious (once you know where to look) that it creates all sorts of perverse societal incentives that work against individual citizens' interests.
- locopati 8y agoLet's be clear... corrupt politicans have stalled bills at the behest of their bosses.