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Montana Becomes First State to Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal

posted by martyb on Tuesday January 23 2018, @05:13AM   Printer-friendly
from the violently-imposed-monopoly dept.

DannyB writes:

It seems: Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal.

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) signed an executive order on Monday requiring internet service providers with state contracts to abide by net neutrality principles.

The order makes his state the first to push back on the Federal Communications Commission's decision to repeal the open internet rules last month.

[...] The order says that in order to receive a contract with the state government, internet service providers must not engage in blocking or throttling web content or create internet fast lanes. Those practices were all banned under the Obama-era 2015 net neutrality order.

The Republican FCC voted to dismantle those rules in December.

The FCC's repeal includes a ban on states implementing their own net neutrality rules, but Democratic-controlled legislatures around the country are eager to challenge that provision.

[...] "When the FCC repealed its net neutrality rules, it said consumers should choose," Bullock said in his statement. "The State of Montana is one of the biggest consumers of internet services in our state. Today we're making our choice clear: we want net neutrality."

We may end up with many different state net neutrality laws for ISPs to comply with.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday January 23 2018, @02:42PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 23 2018, @02:42PM (#626562) Journal

    Big Data and Big Media would be the ones IN FAVOR of net neutrality. They need good connections and good pipes to get their data and media around the network. It hurts them if networks create choke points, strangleholds, troll bridges and unfair discrimination of traffic.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @05:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @05:24PM (#626642)

    Small-to-Medium Data and Media should be in favor of Net Neutrality, but to properly Big data/media it's an acceptable cost of doing business. They can afford to pay the protection money while their would-be-competitors cannot, giving them an effective monopoly.

    Or at least that's the best rationalization I've heard as to why most of the big media people were relatively quiet come vote time.