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Re:US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules by username223 on Thursday March 23, 2017 @04:15PM (#13943818)
Politicians are routinely bought by those with narrow interests.

By coincidence, Planet Money recently did a podcast about automatically filling out tax returns in California:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/episo...

tl;dr: In a pilot, 99% of people preferred the auto-filled returns, but the bill to make it law failed by one vote, because of Intuit and Grover Norquist.

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