https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xe38p/california-net-neutrality-law-att > Riding a wave of merger mania, AT&T wants to ensure state and federal lawmakers are powerless to thwart its attempt to dominate the internet > Having successfully lobbied the Ajit Pai’s FCC to kill federal net neutrality rules, lobbyists for AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast have shifted their focus to the state level, where more than half the states in the union are now contemplating some form of net neutrality protections, either in the form of new laws or executive orders.