https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pav4vv/atandt-trickery-helps-kill-californias-looming-net-neutrality-law

AT&T has managed to derail a looming California net neutrality proposal groups like the EFF had called the “gold standard” for state-level net neutrality laws.

More than half the states in the country are now eyeing some form of state-level net neutrality laws after the FCC’s historically-unpopular decision to eliminate federal rules late last year. But Senator Scott Wiener’s SB 822 went even further than the discarded FCC rules by placing some important restrictions on how companies like AT&T can use their broadband dominance to anti-competitive advantage. The bill took specific aim at issues like zero rating, the practice of excluding an ISPs own content from usage caps while still penalizing rivals like Netflix. It also took aim at anti-competitive ISP behavior on the peering and interconnection front, which you might recall resulted in Netflix traffic grinding to a halt for many users a few years ago.