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Gov. Jerry Brown Signs Bill To Restore Net Neutrality in California; the Trump Administration is Already Trying To Block It (nbcnews.com)
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law on Sunday a bill to restore net neutrality protections that President Donald Trump's Federal Communications Commission killed late last year. From a report: The new law prohibits internet service providers, or ISPs, from blocking or slowing access to legal online content, demanding special fees from websites to prioritize their traffic or charging customers for special exemptions to caps on their data use. Brown signed the measure without comment, setting up almost certain showdowns with both ISPs and the FCC, which barred states from setting their own rules in its repeal last December of protections instituted during the administration of President Barack Obama. The U.S. Justice Department quickly filed a federal action in U.S. District Court in Sacramento to block the new law Sunday night. In a statement, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said: "Under the Constitution, states do not regulate interstate commerce -- the federal government does. Once again the California legislature has enacted an extreme and illegal state law attempting to frustrate federal policy." Brown also signed A.B. 1999, which makes it easier for local governments to build community broadband and offer competitive high-speed fiber.
Assume that Trump manages to corrupt the supreme court to to be his private Republican rubber stamp. How does that affect the situation when this lands in front of the supremes, as it surely will.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
The Feds will lose. The law is structured so that it doesn't do anything regarding "interstate commerce", and other states are lining up to follow California's lead.
The Feds will lose the same way they're losing on legal marijuana.
You are welcome on my lawn.
The Fed's have the right to regulate, but chose not to do so. The FCC has repeatedly stated the Internet is outside their jurisdiction and Congress refused to pass any laws rescinding that. Bush drew up an executive order eliminating Federal controls. Don't blame California for exploiting this.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Whoa, underage drinking. Noone cared with Clinton "I did not inhale" and George W.'s cocaine, or Obama's pot AND cocaine. It'd take daily deliriant usage for Americans to be likely to care.
Source.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
If the US can't regulate 'the internet' then on what basis can California?
Fact is, net neutrality isn't regulating 'the internet', it regulates ISPs that do business in the US... Your international argument is non-sensical, do you really believe the IS can't regulate within it's own borders how domestic ISP handle domestic traffic to domestic customers?
Ken
Not sure whats happening atm on legal weed, but a lot of the success came from the Obama Administration ordering the DEA to not to interfere with States that want to do their own thing.
No, no it did not. Obama's DEA made more busts of legal dispensaries, not less.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"