https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/05/california_net_neutrality_protections/ > California lawmakers promised to introduce the "strongest net neutrality protections in the nation" on Thursday morning, just weeks after a key piece of the legislation was gutted at the committee stage, sparking online fury. > Four lawmakers gave a joint press conference in Sacramento announcing a new plan, which sounds exactly like the old plan, with bans on blocking, throttling, access fees, and "abusive" zero rating – the practice of not counting network traffic from certain blessed services in monthly download allowances.