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posted by takyon on Tuesday October 02 2018, @02:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the net-balk dept.

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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


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday October 02 2018, @04:36PM (1 child)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday October 02 2018, @04:36PM (#742899) Journal

    You know, I'm not so sure 30 Men-in-Blacks per second isn't the right measure of what we get from the Internet...

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday October 02 2018, @05:04PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday October 02 2018, @05:04PM (#742925)

    The typical Libraries Of Congress unit doesn't specify resolution of the pictures, leaving unacceptable ambiguity.
    The HD MiB or 4K MiB is a fixed quantity of information, as long as Comcast doesn't throw away half the bytes. Closer to SI grade unit.
    Yet, the "Gigli" would be better, since it is fixed and hidden in a safe vault forever, never to be touched or seen again. One would not want to base their unit system on the everchanging quantity knows as Star Wars.