Rubio (R-FL), Yea
Nelson (D-FL), Nay
Notice that
NO DEMOCRAT voted for this. Congratulations GOP, you now make this the United States of Corporate America.....
Republicans in Congress just voted to reverse a landmark FCC privacy rule that opens the door for ISPs to sell customer data. Lawmakers provided no credible reason for this being in the interest of Americans, except for vague platitudes about “consumer choice” and “free markets,” as if consumers at the mercy of their local internet monopoly are craving to have their web history quietly sold to marketers and any other third party willing to pay.
The only people who seem to want this are the people who are going to make lots of money from it. (Hint: they work for companies like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T.)
Incidentally, these people and their companies routinely give lots of money to members of Congress.
Note on the data below: donations include contributions from corporations in the telecom industry and employees of those corporations (individual and non-individual contributions). The largest donors tend to be corporations which contributed funds to the candidate and / or the candidate’s leadership organization (PAC). All figures only reflect donations tallied for the candidate’s most recent election — many have received total sums much larger than the figure reflected over the course of their career in Congress. Figures are from federal election data compiled by the National Institute on Money in State Politics (
Home - FollowTheMoney.org 1).
FLORIDA LEGISLATORS VOTING FOR ALLOWING ISP'S TO SELL YOUR BROWSING DATA:
NAME..................AMOUNT GIVEN BY ISP'S AND PAC'S
RUBIO, MARCO.....$75,535
Bilirakis, Gus........$55,000
Buchanan, Vern....$18,900
Curbelo, Carlos.....$45,700
DeSantis, Ron.......$21,634
Diaz-Balart, Mario..$26,500
Dunn, Neal...........$13,750
Gaetz, Matt............$7,000
Mast, Brian..........$10,500
Posey, Bill.............$3,000
Rooney, Tom........$19,000
Rooney, Laurence..$16,625
Ross, Dennis........$17,000
Rutherford, John...$6,000
Webster, Daniel.....$2,500
Yoho, Ted.............$4,000
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