A Phishy Plan to Protect Privacy: The FCC regulates private data use—except by Google or Amazon.

[Commentary] The Federal Communications Commission promised that managing the Internet like an 1890s railroad wouldn’t result in a crush of new “net neutrality” regulations, but this claim keeps hitting the firewall of reality: Now the commission is proposing privacy rules that dump decades of successful policy and don’t apply to the tech companies that profit off Web habits.