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The Trump administration is suing California to quash its new net neutrality law
The Trump administration said Sunday it will sue California in an effort to block what some experts have described as the toughest net neutrality law ever enacted in the United States, setting up a high-stakes legal showdown over the future of the Internet.
California on Sunday became the largest state to adopt its own rules requiring Internet providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon to treat all web traffic equally. Golden State legislators took the step of writing their law after the Federal Communications Commission scrapped nationwide protections last year, citing the regulatory burdens they had caused for the telecom industry.
Mere hours after California's proposal became law, however, senior Justice Department officials told The Washington Post they would take the state to court on grounds that the federal government, not state leaders, has the exclusive power to regulate net neutrality. DOJ officials stressed the FCC had been granted such authority from Congress to ensure that all 50 states don't seek to write their own, potentially conflicting, rules governing the web.
Also at Ars Technica, TechDirt, and Politico.
Previously: California Gov. Signs Nation’s Strictest Net Neutrality Rules Into Law
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @03:17PM (2 children)
That would give the Mesh network people a lot more incentive to push their tech, because they wouldn't be fighting the coercive power of government. They'd just have to win minds.
I'd like to see people set up a much more decentralized, reactionary, amorphous, much more local-point-to-local-point Internet; it might be a lot slower, but it will be a lot more resilient.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @05:02PM
This is true. Until we can eliminate the ISP, the internet is up against a brick wall. There is no redundancy when you can be cut off by any authority so easily.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday October 02 2018, @11:27PM
I plan to set up Tor Hidden Services for all my sites.
While Tor can be slow as molasses, it is exceedingly difficult to censor it. Censorship of the Internet by repressive regimes is a far far more serious problem than spanking your monkey to Penthouse Television.
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