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posted by janrinok on Tuesday August 21 2018, @01:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the its-not-over-until-the-fat-lady-sings dept.

From Reuters:

A group of 22 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia late Monday asked a U.S. appeals court to reinstate the Obama administration's 2015 landmark net neutrality rules and reject the Trump administration's efforts to preempt states from imposing their own rules guaranteeing an open internet.

The states, led by New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood, filed a lawsuit in January after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted in December along party lines to reverse rules that barred internet service providers from blocking or throttling traffic or offering paid fast lanes, also known as paid prioritization.

Several internet companies filed a separate legal challenge on Monday to overturn the FCC ruling, including Mozilla Corp, Vimeo Inc, Etsy Inc, and numerous media and technology advocacy groups.

The FCC handed sweeping new powers to internet providers to recast how Americans use the internet — as long as they disclose any changes. The new rules took effect in early June but major providers have made no changes in internet access.

[...] The U.S. Senate voted in May to keep the Obama-era internet rules, but the measure is unlikely to be approved by the House of Representatives or the White House.

The state attorney generals suing represent states with 165 million people — more than half the United States population — and include California, Illinois, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia.


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  • (Score: 2) by eravnrekaree on Tuesday August 21 2018, @10:36PM

    by eravnrekaree (555) on Tuesday August 21 2018, @10:36PM (#724429)

    Indeed, that is where these issues belong. Lets just let the individual states do it, this is how things should work under federalism. This would also allow each state to "experiment" and find out what works best and other states can then learn from each other and improve their laws from what is learned by other states laws.

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