It didn’t take long for Stephen Colbert to rip into the GOP for their new policy on Internet privacy. Colbert immediately went into his monologue by asking the audience, “does anyone here use the internet?” Yesterday Congress voted to allow internet providers to sell your web browsing history. Folks, now might be a good time to hit that “clear cache” button. Just kidding, that wouldn’t even remotely work.
The vote makes absolutely no sense considering that so many political scandals that keep surfacing are in some way connected to a computer and records of emails, etc etc. While it’s not directly related it’s pretty darned close. I mean what person in Congress stood up in a room and said, “let’s make every site I ever visited in the history of my internet browsing available for the world to see?” It makes zero sense.
P.S. now your customer information will not be protected from hackers and thieves. I’m curious how some of the larger internet companies are going to react to this. Companies like Facebook and Google have to respond to this right? I wouldn’t be surprised if they do something pretty drastic in the near future.
P.S. if you want to see Colbert completely ripping on this new policy for five minutes straight, the video is below:
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