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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Verge: The California Senate voted on Wednesday to approve a bill that would reinstate the net neutrality regulations repealed by the Federal Communications Commission in December.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.
But Comcast put my contribution in the slow lane
Take it in the ass and swallow. Traitors!
I thought congress already voted to repeal the FCC repeal
Because regulations are best and always work.
Get used to it!
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So T-Mobile won't be able to offer Netflix with its service?
AT&T won't be able to offer DirecTV?
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This is the PROPER way to do things in this country. Write up a law, the people who voted the representatives in get to vote on the law. We the people tell our critters whether or not we like or not like it; they vote however they want anyway.
A scribble on a cocktail napkin doesn't make a law.
We have procedures that need to be followed. What happens when we try to short-circuit the system? Crap like a 5 member panel get to overturn it depending on the way the wind takes the fart.
Remember the 12 corrupt POSes that voted no.
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"Africa is for black people. Period. We need our land back and we're going to take it by force," said a woman amongst an angry crowd trying to occupy a field on the north-eastern edge of Johannesburg.
Let's pretend for a moment this sentiment is true. If Africa is for black people, this implies that each race is entitled to its own, private, possibly-exclusive region. When black people say things like this, I hope they realize the door swings both ways. Ergo, Asia must be for asians, Europe/America for whites.
If you give Africa to the blacks, they will piss, shit and rape it back into a dustbin because they are stupid, short-sighted animals. Johannesburg was a gleaming, modern city with reliable utilities and sanitation. Now it looks like someone built a ghetto on a landfill. Packs of thieving, violent negroids live inside the sweltering, unlit, burned-out remains of 5-star hotels, stinking of piss and sweaty niiggerheads.
So congratulations "black people", you're fuckin useless. Hurry up and die.
Californias taxes are going up! a lot!
Your free ride is no longer deductable!
Actually, This is exactly what being a Republic is all about.
States can do this. So now what happens is we get to see how this affects the speeds and the revenue. If it is overall positive, then it can be reconsidered at the Federal level. If it turns out to suck, then maybe not.
It's how America was designed to work.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
existing telco monopolies and their paper insulated wireline.
Time to allow some innovative community broadband and real networking competition.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"