Colbert says it better than we could RE: Congress giving away your privacy

Scott Hunter | Mar 29, 20170

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Congress voted this week to give away your privacy even more, scrapping a rule that would have blocked intertet service providers from selling your information. This Colbert segment contains essentially the same opinion we would have written in an editorial about that issue, but of course Colbert is much funnier than our editorial would have been:

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