https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/31/verizon_fcc_regulation/ >Verizon is leaning on America's broadband watchdog to stomp out any hope of state governments rolling out their own rules on net neutrality, privacy protections, and other internet regulations. >The telecoms giant this month wrote to the FCC urging the communications regulator to overrule various attempts by US states to institute their own regulations on how phone carriers and ISPs operate their networks and collect and share customers' personal information.