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California's Net Neutrality bill just passed out of committee and is on its way to be voted on by the Assembly. If you are a California voter, please take a moment now to call your assemblymember and tell them to vote "yes" on SB 822.
Senate Bill 822 was originally introduced earlier this summer and would introduce some of the most robust net neutrality protections in the country, including prohibiting blocking and throttling of data, as well as limits on zero rating—a practice where companies provide access to certain parts of the internet for “free” and charge for others. But on the first go around, when being considered by the state senate Communications and Conveyance Committee, the bill was dramatically gutted, thanks to heavy lobbying from major telecom companies like AT&T. In response, the bill’s supporters scrapped it.
The bill’s author, democratic state senator Scott Wiener, went back to the drawing board and, with the help of the bill’s proponents, managed to get more committee members to back it, including state assemblyperson Miguel Santiago, who led the original effort to dismantle the bill. He then brought the bill back from the dead.
On Wednesday, the committee held a second hearing on the bill, which drew dozens of members of the public in support. After a mild debate, which included telecom lobbyists claiming the bill was anti-competitive and would have devastating impacts on consumers (while also misrepresenting the bill’s language and taking weird digs at the Netherlands), the committee voted 8-2 to adopt the bill. It will now go to the state assembly for a vote.
And California's other #NetNeutrality bill, SB 460, has also passed a vote and is on its way to another committee hearing. Californians, keep telling your assemblymembers to stand up for a free and open Internet. [Help California Secure Net Neutrality Protections: Support S.B. 822 and S.B. 460] — EFF (@EFF)
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @02:25PM (9 children)
Socialist morons want California to be uncompetitive.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Pino P on Thursday August 23 2018, @02:44PM (2 children)
There is no free market for wired Internet service because city governments own city roads. City governments use this as a rationale to regulate utilities that use their rights of way. (See "The Myth of Natural Monopoly" by Thomas J. DiLorenzo [mises.org].) One way a city could make access to its rights of way more efficient is to bury conduit in advance and then let utilities blow their fiber through it later.
There is no free market for cellular Internet service in the U.S. because the U.S. government owns radio frequency spectrum. The U.S. government uses this as a rationale to regulate utilities that use its spectrum.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @02:59PM
I imagine that if men were angels....
wait... You're not an AC! Did the ancap AC need to take the day off today?
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday August 23 2018, @11:57PM
Well, apparently the author of the bill also believes in the free-market of spreading AIDS. [nbcnews.com]
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @03:06PM (3 children)
What should be interesting is that net neutrality directly opposes the control over the internet the DNC wants to have. They won't be able to control "fake news" (translation: independent news that brings up inconvenient facts and performs analysis for readers who don't suffer from ADHD) with net neutrality.
Is it time for somebody to get #metoo'd?
Or is the D team finally learning their lesson about why She Lost? Naah, let's get some #metoo action on. Does this Scott Wiener guy have any relation to Anthony Wiener? Can't we just establish guilt by association now that guilt is established by accusation?
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @03:40PM (2 children)
A simpler explanation is that everything you've "learned" about the DNC from Fox News, Breitbart, Infowars etc is a load of shit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @05:29PM (1 child)
What about World Socialist Web Site [wsws.org]?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @06:55PM
What about it? Got some examples on there of bullshit fake news?
I don't read that site but a quick perusal of their homepage doesn't look nearly as click-baity and nonsensical as breitbart / infowars.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday August 23 2018, @03:53PM
Well done sir. I think.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday August 23 2018, @06:48PM
So could I safely conclude that . . .
Socialist geniuses want California to be competitive?
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.