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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01 2018, @09:50PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01 2018, @09:50PM (#742506)

    Gosh, that man you made is so nicely filled with straw!

    I never said net neutrality was a step towards reducing those problems. I said that the markets are not free. Thus any appeal that suggests that we need net neturality enforcement becuase "free markets" is fallacious from the beginning.

    To the contrary: Because the markets are not free, and should not be free for essential telecom that should not be doled out based on who pays the most, means net neutrality should exist.

    Clear enough, now?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01 2018, @09:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01 2018, @09:52PM (#742508)

    Correction... that we do *not* need net neutrality because "free markets" is fallacious, sorry. OTOH I shouldn't have had to explain it in the first place.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01 2018, @11:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01 2018, @11:46PM (#742543)

    Your comment is stupid.