Flutterby™! : Third party cookies - For the childruuuuun

4 U.S. Representatives, Mike Pompeo (R-KS), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Walter Jones (R-NC) and Jeff Denham (R-CA) wrote a letter to Mozilla asking them to not block third party cookies (PDF). Yes, they break out the "For the children" card, along with talking about how privacy is antithetical to corporate interests:

... This technology enables national brand-name companies to serve relevant advertisements on mom-and-pop websites that would otherwise be unable to compete with giant internet companies for jobs-creating ad dollars. In addition, third-party cookies enable internet advertising networks to replace their ads with hundres of milluions of real-time AMBER alerts and tornado warnings. ...