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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) by Reziac on Tuesday October 02 2018, @02:40AM

    by Reziac (2489) on Tuesday October 02 2018, @02:40AM (#742610) Homepage

    California may have a winning idea now and then, but long experience taught me that very seldom is any CA legislation in the people's interest; rather, it's typically at the behest and for the benefit of some special interest.

    But give this one a few years, and see how CA's notions of "Net Neutrality" work out. Meanwhile, please don't export your unproven methods to the rest of us. Very little of what gets passed in the CA state legislature is entirely what it says on the tin.

    [reads bill]

    "It would also prohibit fixed and mobile Internet service providers from offering or providing services other than broadband Internet access service that are delivered over the same last-mile connection as the broadband Internet access service, if those services have the purpose or effect of evading the above-described prohibitions or negatively affect the performance of broadband Internet access service."

    Hmm. This strikes me as a sneaky form of non-compete clause, and quite possibly the real meat of the bill.

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