1. This FCC ruling applied ONLY to ISP and Telecommunications providers. It did not apply to technology companies in general. So Facebook, YouTube, Google, Microsoft, Snapchat, Yahoo, AOL, gmail, hotmail, etc. etc. etc. remained unaffected by the FCC Regulation.
2. There is NO CHANGE in the previous or current regulatory environment. NOTHING has changed. The FCC proposed rules WERE NOT IN EFFECT. No date certain as to when they would have been.
So as you can see this is borderline Fake News. It has elements of truth but as usual the stories are biased. There was no internet privacy as of right now. And even if not "stripped away" the privacy would have been narrow and limited.
You can read it for yourself.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/12/02/2016-28006/protecting-the-privacy-of-customers-of-broadband-and-other-telecommunications-services
I will say though that what Congress should do is immediately enact an Internet or Technology Privacy act similiar to HIPAA. Anything less is unacceptable. A pipe dream I know.