---
date: '2017-03-28'
title: 'Congress guts internet privacy protections'
description: "Thanks to a cash-soaked Congress there will be neither broadband competition, nor functional regulatory oversight of an industry with a documented history of aggressive, anti-consumer and anticompetitive behavior. What could possibly go wrong?"
tags: ['politics', 'net neutrality']
---

**[Techdirt:](https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170328/09565737026/consumer-broadband-privacy-protections-are-dead.shtml)**

> Thanks to a cash-soaked Congress there will be neither broadband competition, nor functional regulatory oversight of an industry with a documented history of aggressive, anti-consumer and anticompetitive behavior. What could possibly go wrong?<!-- excerpt -->
