The Republican hopeful positioned himself as pro-data collection and anti-encryption in a race where privacy and net neutrality have never mattered moreDo you want to live in a country where Internet Service Providers can leisurely down and censor your internet traffic at will,where the NSA has vastly more power than it does today and where terminate-to-terminate encryption may be illegal? Then Jeb Bush is the Republican presidential contender for you: he has positioned himself as the anti-internet candidate in an election where internet rights have never mattered more.
A lot of the White House candidates have made worrying comments about the future of surveillance and the internet – from Chris Christies weird vow to track 10 million people like FedEx packages, to Hillary Clinton’s waffling on encryption backdoors – but Jeb Bush’s deliberate campaign to roll back internet rights is the perfect storm of unpleasant.
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Source: theguardian.com