Judge Puts Brakes on Lobbyists, Supports California’s Gold Standard Net Neutrality Law Details
CALIFORNIA Defenders of the open internet celebrated a major victory late Tuesday after a federal judge ruled that a California law establishing strong net neutrality protections can take effect, a severe blow to the telecom giants that spent big money trying to kill the measure through aggressive lobbying and litigation.
The California state legislature approved the protections in 2018 after former President Donald Trump s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) then headed by ex-Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai voted to repeal national net neutrality rules in late 2017, opening the door to throttling and other telecom manipulation and degradation of internet service.
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State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, speaking to consumer and internet activists in Sacramento in 2018.Katy Murphy / TNS
The battle for the internet unfolding in California follows a template familiar to observers of the state’s contest with automakers over air pollution: Interested corporations team up with a reactionary administration to dismantle reasonable federal regulations, California and other states step into the breach, and the companies’ lobbyists end up whining about the piecemeal state regulations they brought on themselves.
A federal judge on Tuesday cleared the way for California to begin enforcing its law prohibiting internet service providers from favoring or penalizing content from particular sources. The net neutrality law was championed by state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, and signed into law by Gov. Jerry
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