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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Verge: The California Senate voted on Wednesday to approve a bill that would reinstate the net neutrality regulations repealed by the Federal Communications Commission in December.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.
Omnipresent regulation and laws detailing all aspects of life in the pursuit of the ongoing Perfecting of Mankind will grow to such a ponderous burden that progress in technology will start slowing, approaching the rate under dictatorship or failed state. No one can do anything without securing difficult permission from the overlords.
Good luck with perfecting people. I'm sure there's a regulation somewhere that saying Mankind is worthy of firing, or if you're lucky, merely being sent to a re-education camp, if done in a university, scholastic, or business environment.
Seriously.
No, seriously.
No, really, seriously.
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Little known fact - Netflix's entire Internet costs would be $100 per month if NN were in force!
NN was in force for years. Did Netflix pay $100 per month during that time? Of course not, because you are full of crap.