California Senate Votes To Restore Net Neutrality (theverge.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The California Senate voted on Wednesday to approve a bill that would reinstate the net neutrality regulations repealed by the Federal Communications Commission in December. The bill, S.B. 822, authored by Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), was introduced in March and passed through three committees, all along party-lines. The bill was approved 23-12 and will now head to the state Assembly. The bill would reinstate rules similar to those in the FCC's 2015 Open Internet Order. It forbids ISPs from throttling or blocking online content and requires them to treat all internet traffic equally. But the bill also takes the original rules further by specifically banning providers from participating in some types of "zero-rating" programs, in which certain favored content doesn't contribute to monthly data caps. If the bill goes on to pass in the Assembly, providers will no longer be able to obtain government contracts in the state of California without obeying the regulations.

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Re:What am I missing?

[BlueStrat]

What am I missing?

What you're missing (along with many other partisan "rah-rah-team" types here) is the Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution.

SCOTUS, particularly now with Gorsuch on the bench, will slap CA down. Hard. The same thing that's going to happen to "sanctuary cities" and the criminals in office who are criminal accessories both to violations of Federal immigration law, but also accessories to every crime committed by illegal aliens they've allowed to continue breaking the law by remaining illegally.

If AZ can't enforce laws regarding immigration because it's a Federal Department that has sole, exclusive authority, neither can CA do it regarding NN which is also under exclusively Federal authority.

It would be like Louisiana enacting a law banning jet aircraft, cellphones, or AM radio stations. States don't have such authority for good reason which we see playing out here.

Strat