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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @11:22PM (1 child)
You must be posting in the wrong article. You just advocated FOR net neutrality which is what this article is about. You are right, ISPs should sell bandwidth and not give a damn what is going through the pipes, and shouldn't be invading the privacy of users by long term logging without a court order.
The other article about firemen and verizon is a different topic, but on that note verizon shouldn't be selling a plan as unlimited if they can't support it. Fine print should be illegal. However you are correct, it seems the firemen exceeded the bandwidth that falls under "unlimited with fine print attached"
I don't think you understand how the world works beyond a very basic level. Let me guess, you don't even need to pause to know what TANSTAAFL means? Universal healthcare and education aren't free, you use them and then you work and pay taxes for them. Pretty much all the countries with universal healthcare and education have better outcomes than the US, and please don't bring out the tired meme of "but homogenous societies!"
(Score: 2) by The Shire on Friday August 24 2018, @12:30PM
That's not what I said at all. I said the ISP doesn't care what YOU are running through their pipes. However all ISP's have to manage their resources and prioritize their traffic. If I'm serving a residential area with a 10GbE link and 2% of the users there are gorging themselves on 80% of that pipe then I would be inclined to throttle those 2% so I can better serve the other 98%. Traffic shapping is a necessary thing in order to provide proper services to everyone.
What people are missing here isn't about net neutrality or common carrier status. It has everything to do with requiring ISP's to be ONLY ISP's. When the ISP is also a media giant, THAT is where the conflict crops up. If we break up Comcrap into two seperate companies - the internet carrier and the media company, then this whole issue goes away. Comcast Internet and Comcast Media should be two seperate entities with Comcast Media competing with all the other cable tv providers for equal access to the Comcast Internet infrastructure. Then you have competition and competition is what works best for the consumer.