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posted by mrpg on Monday October 01 2018, @08:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the game-on dept.

California gov. signs nation's strictest net neutrality rules into law:

California Governor Jerry Brown today signed net neutrality legislation into law, setting up a legal showdown pitting his state against Internet service providers and the Federal Communications Commission.

The California net neutrality bill, previously approved by the state Assembly and Senate despite protests from AT&T and cable lobbyists, imposes rules similar to those previously enforced by the FCC.

"While the Trump administration does everything in its power to undermine our democracy, we in California will continue to do what's right for our residents," California State Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), author of the net neutrality bill, said today.

California's legal authority to impose its own net neutrality rules will be tested in court. The FCC's recent repeal of federal rules said that states aren't allowed to impose net neutrality rules, and FCC Chairman Ajit Pai called California's net neutrality bill "illegal."


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01 2018, @04:35PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01 2018, @04:35PM (#742348)

    There are bytes with less than or more than eight bits? Do tell!

    And those regulations on telcom have nothing to do with making sure everybody gets equal access to the telcom system because society demanded equal access to all and not just those who can pay?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01 2018, @04:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01 2018, @04:52PM (#742351)
    • That's why the C standard defines a byte as having CHAR_BIT bits, where CHAR_BIT is at least 8, but could be more; historically, there have been architectures where a byte is not 8 bits (some less; some more).

      Indeed, in networking (which is what we're talking about), the literature speaks of octets, not bytes, and it does so for this very reason.

    • Anyway, for any given allocation of resources, somebody has to pay; there is no such thing as a free lunch.

      History has shown quite clearly that voluntary trade is the best way to allocate resources in the long-run; that's because it taps into the process of evolution by variation (e.g., supplier competition) and selection (e.g., consumer choice), and it does so in a way that maximizes not only each of these subprocesses (variation or selection) but also individual freedom.

      Taxation is just a vestigial remnant of humanity's much more authoritarian and much more logistically stupid pedigree.

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01 2018, @08:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01 2018, @08:16PM (#742450)

    A big endian and a little endian walk into a bar. The big endian orders a beer. What does the little endian order? A reeb.

    Yes, certainly they can be different, even without being different lengths. But I don't think that is what he meant.