I am somehow please that Mr. Glass does not find me a “knowledgeable network professional”. It feels like a badge of honor. Any other “not” knowledgeable network professionals want to come forward and accept this badge?
Personally, I find the FCC’s current rules to be sub-optimal. But saying a gov’t regulation is sub-optimal is like saying water is wet. The question is not whether the regulation could be improved. It is whether the proposed changes are an improvement. To be 10000% clear: I prefer the current privacy regime over the new one being proposed. Oh, and I do not believe the EFF is just a shill for Google. But then, I’m just a not knowledgeable network professional, so what do I know? -- TTFN, patrick > On Mar 27, 2017, at 7:13 PM, Brett Glass <na...@brettglass.com> wrote: > > All: > > It's worth noting that most of EFF's list consists of individuals and/or > politically connected organizations, not actual ISPs. This is for good > reason. EFF was founded with the intention of creating a civil rights > organization but has morphed into a captive corporate lobbying shop for > Google, to which several of its board members have close financial ties. EFF > opposes the interests of hard working ISPs and routinely denigrates them and > attempts to foster promotes hatred of them. It also promotes and lobbies for > regulations which advantage Google and disadvantage ISPs -- including the > so-called "broadband privacy" regulations, which heavily burden ISPs while > exempting Google from all oversight. > > No knowledgeable network professional or ISP would support the current FCC > rules. Both they AND the FCC's illegal Title II classification of ISPs must > be rolled back, restoring the FTC's ability to apply uniform and apolitical > privacy standards to all of the players in the Internet ecosystem. The first > step is to support S.J. Res 34/H.J. Res 86, the Congressional resolution > which would revoke the current FCC regulations that were written and paid for > by Google and its lobbyists. So, DO contact your legislators... but do so in > support of the resolutions that will repeal the regulations. It is vital to > the future of the Internet. > > --Brett Glass, Owner and Founder, LARIAT.NET > > At 05:05 PM 3/26/2017, Peter Eckersley wrote: > >> Dear network operators, >> >> I'm sure this is a controversial topic in the NANOG community, but EFF and a >> number of ISPs and networking companies are writing to Congress opposing the >> repeal of the FCC's broadband privacy rules, which require explicit opt-in >> consent before ISPs use or sell sensitive, non-anonymized data (including >> non-anonymized locations and browsing histories). >> >> If you or your employer would like to sign on to such a letter, please reply >> off-list by midday Monday with your name, and a one-sentence description of >> your affiliation and/or major career accomplishments.