Colorado progressive group wants to purchase, reveal Cory Gardner's internet browsing history

[angka]

Source: Colorado Statesman

ProgressNow Colorado says it plans to buy U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner’s internet browsing history once it goes on the market and share it with the public in response to the Yuma Republican’s vote last week to allow internet service providers to sell customers’ data without their permission.

The progressive advocacy organization said in an email to supporters Thursday that it also plans to shop for internet data generated by U.S. Reps. Scott Tipton, Doug Lamborn and Ken Buck, three other Colorado Republicans who voted in favor of legislation to overturn consumer privacy rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in the final months of the Obama administration.

“They want to sell off our right to privacy? That means theirs is up for grabs, too,” writes Ian Silverii, ProgressNow Colorado’s executive director, in a fundraising email, which asks for contributions to help cover the costs.

U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, an Aurora Republican, was one of only 15 House Republicans to vote against Senate Joint Resolution 34, which passed the House Tuesday without support from any Democrats.

Read more: https://www.coloradostatesman.com/colorado-progressive-group-wants-purchase-reveal-cory-gardners-internet-browsing-history/

[Equinox Moon]

1. Fantastic!

The resistance is creative!

[groundloop]

2. Too bad Anonymous wasn't releasing this information before the vote

[Hortensis]

9. Who says Anonymous had it or would be helping us?

Anonymous made a number of threats to release information "proving" Hillary and other Democrats were involved in big crimes, described at vaguely length with lots of vicious adjectives, but they never, ever provided anything to back up their own hostile claims.

Short memory. Maybe call for investigation into that group--were any of them colluding with Russia or the Rump camp? What would their own browsing histories reveal?

[Mr. Evil]

3. Since I pay my ISP for the privilege to browse the internet

why are they the ones able to profit from my browsing? Shouldn't I get to set the price and profit from my browsing? I paid for my browsing abilities and I should be the one to get the lion's share. Why just them?

This is just another clusterfuck republican nightmare money making scheme for their benefactors and it needs to be stopped!

[DeminPennswoods]

4. The left has some very creative activists

Like the PA group that set up a (tongue-in-cheek) group to "buy back" Pat Toomey from Betsy DeVos.

[stuffmatters]

5. I hope this involves a very loud, public campaign ag Gardner's vote too.

If all his constituents do not know that Gardner voted to end their internet privacy, they won't vote against him next time.

Every Repub in DC can be brought down by their voting record now. It's up to the Dems to inform voters on every one of their hideous votes. This one especially a no brainer, there is simply no American who wants their (internet) privacy sold off by their elected rep(s)

This is easy How to Win back the House/Senate 101.

[DeminPennswoods]

6. Someone should buy Bannon's history

I'll bet Steven Miller's browsing is pretty interesting, too.

[duhneece]

7. Isn't it possible to clean one's history?

...isn't it possible to 'scrub' the internet of all of one's past use? When I ran for office, I was told to 'scrub' all of my Facebook posts that used the word 'fuck', for instance. That proved to be too daunting a job, so I didn't (it would have taken two full weeks, working full time, to have done that by my reckoning). I was told that my opponent would have by the time I ran...of course, all of her posts were either of her attending ALEC events or local event...or her prayer-ful crap about someone or something or another.

[Oneironaut]

8. Nope

ISPs collect your history based on live traffic. Once you visit a page, that record is permanent. Btw - Facebook probably doesn't "delete" posts - it probably just hides them from view. What you were doing is more so that normal users can't find them. Facebook would probably still be able to retrieve those messages.

[duhneece]

10. Thanks. I know that facebook can be legally forced to 'give it up'..

I just wasn't sure what 'scrubbed' meant...