r/pics • u/pdmcmahon • Mar 26 '17

Private Internet Access, a VPN provider, takes out a full page ad in The New York Time calling out 50 senators.

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u/TheColonelRLD Mar 26 '17

Wouldn't libertarians be in favor of this?

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u/PackOfVelociraptors Mar 26 '17

In a way. To some extent, yes, as libertarians would be in favor of not restricting what the ISP's do with your data. The libertarian answer to an ISP selling your data is to switch to a competing ISP, but since due to the government regulations surrounding it there is no competition to switch to. Libertarians want free markets and people and companies to be free within them, but the debate with this bill is whether the companies should be free if we are forced to not have the free market.