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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: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @05:33PM (3 children)
Like you strong federal government now?
You were warned.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday October 02 2018, @05:52PM
I'm an Independent, so don't preach this at me, asshole. Centralization of power is always going to be a problem, but so is too much fragmentation. The trick is finding the right balance, and doing as much of the equivalent of privilege dropping as possible.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @06:13PM (1 child)
Eh? So what you're saying is, conservatard republicunts like you don't like big government, but they have no qualms about using big government to get their way?
All you fucking conservatards are hypocrites. Every last one. If you really wanted a small government you'd turn a big government into a small government rather than using said big government to get your way.
Fuck you. You're the cancer that's killing America. You go on and on about "states rights" right up until the point where a blue state does something that you don't like. At that point your TRUE colors show and we see that you don't actually want a small government, you want the biggest god damned government you can possibly have so that you can stomp all over any state that happens to disagree with you. Again, I say: FUCK. YOU. Anyone who votes Republican in this day and age is an un-American traitor hell-bent on the destruction of this once great nation.
FUCK YOU AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @06:28PM
My endowment.