https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/594e7z/californias-resurrected-net-neutrality-bill-just-passed-a-major-hurdle > California’s resurrected net neutrality bill just passed a major hurdle and is now on its way to be voted on in the state assembly. > Senate Bill 822 was originally introduced earlier this summer and would introduce some of the most robust net neutrality protections in the country, including prohibiting blocking and throttling of data, as well as limits on zero rating—a practice where companies provide access to certain parts of the internet for “free” and charge for others. But on the first go around, when being considered by the state senate Communications and Conveyance Committee, the bill was dramatically gutted, thanks to heavy lobbying from major telecom companies like AT&T. In response, the bill’s supporters scrapped it.