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Montana Becomes First State To Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal (thehill.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the take-matters-into-your-own-hands dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) signed an executive order on Monday requiring internet service providers with state contracts to abide by net neutrality principles. The order makes his state the first to push back on the Federal Communications Commission's decision to repeal the open internet rules last month. The order says that in order to receive a contract with the state government, internet service providers must not engage in blocking or throttling web content or create internet fast lanes. Those practices were all banned under the Obama-era 2015 net neutrality order. Bullock's office said the executive order goes into effect immediately, but there will be a six-month grace period for companies to ensure that they're in compliance. The governor said on Monday that he is encouraging his counterparts and legislators in other states to follow suit, promising to personally email a copy of his order to any who ask for it. Further reading: The New York Times

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  1. Re:Good luck with that. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Every word in that last sentence is wrong.

  2. Re:Unamerican. by Ichijo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's funny because the FCC wants to big-government-regulate away the rights of states to write their own Net Neutrality protections!

    Just as the Title II Order promised to "exercise our preemption authority to preclude states from imposing regulations on broadband service that are inconsistent" with the federal regulatory scheme, we conclude that we should exercise our authority to preempt any state or local requirements that are inconsistent with the federal deregulatory approach we adopt today.

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  3. Re:Good luck with that. by silas_moeckel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sorry, but why can't the local gov org that doles out monopolies do this? This is exactly what they should be doing, your lic is not renewed without guaranteeing to net neutrality and gets yanked when you fail to do so. Hells our first line defense should be truth in advertising anybody blocking content without a court order should be having the state AG breathing down their necks.

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  4. Re:Good luck with that. by murdocj · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's hard to see how states could lose such a case. They aren't forbidding companies from operating in their state, they are stating conditions for companies to have state contracts.