Unless you're Minsc...He would totally say something like that. But we are talking about the same guy who hid a hamster up his butt for months....

The current climate has allowed the FCC to regulate and "protect" people's privacy. The problem with the FCC doing it is their agenda changes via administrations and corporate meddling. Of course providers are going to get testy when states take matters in their own hands and regulate things the proper way via 10th Amendment and using a legislature, instead of a regulatory independent agency and an executive branch that chooses the regulatory body which violates the constitution and opens the door for abuse. The FCC must die and states must take matters into their own hands and get the federal government out of it as much as possible. That is where true freedom is going to come from (sorry net neutrality was never that avenue) and it is the duty of the each People of the each state to hold their state government bodies accountable when they try to follow in the footsteps the federal government has shown.

And this is typically where freedom dies and the authoritarian wins, my friend. If you aren't going to raise your voice for someone because you don't agree with his lifestyle, nobody is going to be left when they come to silence you.

Some people don't mine either. There are those who love it. Especially those who skim this data then sell it for a retirement sum on the dark web.

Did any of you realize that Vox left out a little detail and actively deceived the readers? For those who live under rock, the data they received and reposted is public data and searchable by any goon with a computer and keyboard by nearly every state website. Some states allow the public release of the last four of your social. So it is okay for your state to vomit this information, yet when the federal government, who already spies on every fucking communication made by phone and computer, releases it, it becomes a privacy matter. We civil libertarians have been bitching about this for almost two decades. Where the hell have you all been? Oh that's right. This is a partisan issue drummed up by the media and now you all care. If anything, the Trump administration just made you all aware of something that has been going on for a long time. Welcome to the fight people. Now it is time to put your individual states back in check.

It should be quite alarming that a state would issue such policies. I also realize that this is the agenda here in the US. Unfortunately, censoring media, including fake news, is constitutionally protected. I do realize there is an arm of MSM and the masses of Sheeple who disagree. I'll be happy to point out that while certain candidates, like Obama, have gotten a free pass initiating the groundwork for censorship, these same policies should and have already sounded the alarm when the wrong regime takes office (Trump). What is good for the goose is good for the gander right? Or perhaps we can cut the left/right hypocritical bullshit. If the policies are dangerous under any regime, they are just dangerous all together and the People should stand up and prevent these policies from being implemented.

He doesn't have to make the assumption. Regardless of how many honey coated words are used, that is what he is saying, in the end. There should never be a mandate that gives the government a free pass into crypto. It is not American. But after seeing how google, yahoo, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and individual app makers use and sell your information, I can see where most people don't see a problem with this. But just because millions of people are oblivious to the fact that not only are they being spied upon by large corporations with no regulations, and metadataed by the NSA, doesn't make it right. There isn't anything wrong with an American system that requires warrant for a targeted individual. It works just fine. The problem is, law enforcement has gotten too lazy to do it right, while corporations are making money off of it. Then there are the nefarious actors that breach systems and steal the information for the same purpose as the corporation who keeps it. To make money. As you can see, in this modern era, the consumer and the protections for them are non-existent. The People are losing this battle.