--- date: '2017-03-28' draft: false title: Congress guts internet privacy protections 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?