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Can the title be changed to something like > SearchInternetHistory fundraising to buy, show politicians' Internet usage

Right now it's a pretty generic title.

I tried to edit it to something like that, but the form didn't work. And now I don't even see an edit button.

On Tuesday, Congress sent proposed legislation to President Trump that wipes away landmark online privacy protections. In a party-line vote, House Republicans freed Internet service providers such as AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast of protections approved just last year that had sought to limit what companies could do with information such as customer browsing habits, app usage history, location data and Social Security numbers. Now call it a poetic justice, less than a day later, online privacy activist Adam McElhaney has launched an initiative called Search Internet History, with an objective of raising funds to buy browsing history of each politician and official who voted in favor of S.J.Res 34. On the site, he has also put up a poll asking people whose internet history they would like to see first. - Slashdot

> protections approved just last year

Protections that had been recently removed (FTC regulation), and were originally instated in 1934 (Communications act). I think this is an important detail too easily glossed-over.

Is there a mirror? I checked Archive.is and it's not archived there. Looks to be super popular. I just get 500 errors.

Brilliant.