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ISPs Lobbying California Lawmakers In Bid To Weaken State's Looming Net Neutrality Law

ISPs Lobbying California Lawmakers In Bid To Weaken State's Looming Net Neutrality Law

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180615/08325340049/isps-lobbying-california-lawmakers-bid-to-weaken-states-looming-net-neutrality-law.shtml

More than half the states in the nation now pursuing individual net neutrality rules, either in the form of executive orders (banning state contracts with net-neutrality violating ISPs) or new state laws. And while ISPs have been whining about the unfairness of having to adhere to independent requirements in each state, that's probably something their lobbyists should have thought more deeply about when they worked to kill what, despite all the prattle about heavy-handed regulation, were probably some of the more modest net neutrality rules worldwide.

ISPs first tried to stop states from protecting consumers by lobbying the FCC to include language in its "Restoring Internet Freedom" repeal attempting to ban states from doing so. But in the process of gutting their authority over ISPs Ajit Pai's FCC may have also, amusingly, completely neutered its ability to tell states what to do.

ISPs Lobbying California Lawmakers In Bid To Weaken State's Looming Net Neutrality Law

Jun 20, 2018, 11:16am UTC
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180615/08325340049/isps-lobbying-california-lawmakers-bid-to-weaken-states-looming-net-neutrality-law.shtml > More than half the states in the nation now pursuing individual net neutrality rules, either in the form of executive orders (banning state contracts with net-neutrality violating ISPs) or new state laws. And while ISPs have been whining about the unfairness of having to adhere to independent requirements in each state, that's probably something their lobbyists should have thought more deeply about when they worked to kill what, despite all the prattle about heavy-handed regulation, were probably some of the more modest net neutrality rules worldwide. > ISPs first tried to stop states from protecting consumers by lobbying the FCC to include language in its "Restoring Internet Freedom" repeal attempting to ban states from doing so. But in the process of gutting their authority over ISPs Ajit Pai's FCC may have also, amusingly, completely neutered its ability to tell states what to do.