白宮爲計劃廢除奧巴馬時期互聯網隱私規定辯護

The White House on Thursday defended a bill recently passed by Congress to repeal Obama-era Internet privacy protections, saying the move is meant to create a fair playing field for telecommunication companies.

White House Spokesman Sean Spicer, during a Thursday press briefing, reiterated President Donald Trump’s support for the plan to repeal a rule forbidding Internet service providers from collecting personal data on users.

Spicer said the Obama administration’s rules reclassified Internet service providers as common carriers, similar to hotels and other retail stores, treating them unfairly compared to edge providers, like Google and Facebook.

Repealing the rules, he said, will “allow service providers to be treated fairly, and consumer protection and privacy concerns to be reviewed on a level playing field.”

Critics of the repeal bill say it could put the Internet browsing histories of private citizens up for sale to the highest bidder.

Spicer called the rules “federal overreach” instituted by “bureaucrats in Washington to take the interests of one group of companies over the interests of others, picking winners and losers.”

He said Trump has signed more legislation “ending job killing rules and regulations” already during his tenure than all former presidents combined. “[Trump] will continue to fight Washington red tape that stifles American innovation, job creation and economic growth,” Spicer said.白宮星期四爲國會最近通過的一項法案作出辯護，該法案廢除了奧巴馬時代的互聯網隱私保護規定。白宮表示，此舉旨在爲電訊公司創造一個公平的競爭環境。

白宮發言人斯派塞在週四的新聞發佈會上重申，川普總統支持廢除禁止互聯網服務提供商收集用戶個人資料規定的計劃。

斯派塞說，奧巴馬政府的規定將互聯網服務提供商重新分類爲普通運營商，類似於酒店和其他零售商店，這和邊緣提供商（如谷歌和臉書）相比，對他們不公平。

斯派塞說，廢除這一規定將“使得服務提供商得到公平對待，將對消費者的保護和對隱私的擔憂放在公平競爭環境裏進行審查。”

反對廢除此法案的人說，這將使個人的互聯網瀏覽歷史得以被出售給出價最高的買主。

斯派塞稱這些規定是“聯邦政府越權”之舉，是“由華盛頓的官僚制定的‘聯邦超越’規則，將一羣公司的利益與其它人的利益權衡後，選擇贏家和輸家的結果。

他說，川普上任以來簽署的“終止扼殺工作機會的規則和監管”的行政命令數量比他所有前任的總和還多。斯派塞說：“川普將繼續與扼殺美國創新、創造就業和經濟增長的華盛頓傳統進行戰鬥。”