Val Demings: “Please stop me if you have heard this one before and know how it ends. My colleagues on the other side are once again…”

“Please stop me if you have heard this one before and know how it ends. My colleagues on the other side are once again trying to sell the American people a broken alternative to something that is working pretty much as it was intended to. The FCC privacy rule just says that customers must opt in before internet companies can sell their web browsing history, and that those companies must make reasonable efforts to protect customers' sensitive information. These are not unreasonable requirements. The internet is our gateway to the world. Whether we connect through our mobile phone or our home computer, we pay companies for access. If those companies want to sell information about what we do on the internet, they should have to get our permission first. It is the right thing to do. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues on the other side to simply do the right thing.”