California lawmakers passed the toughest net neutrality law in the country on Friday, a move that would guarantee full and equal access to the internet.
The Washington Post reported that the vote from California lawmakers could set up a fight with federal regulators who moved last year to repeal net neutrality.
The legislation, if signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown (D), would preclude internet providers from blocking, slowing or favoring certain websites, the Post reported.
In addition, it would prohibit internet providers from collecting fees from apps and sites in order for them to reach users.
The Post notes that the bill’s goal is to make California the leader of the increasing backlash from states toward the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
The state’s Senate received enough votes for the measure just a day after the state Assembly approved it.
The legislation will now proceed to the governor’s desk for a signature in the coming weeks.
“When Donald Trump’s FCC decided to take a wrecking ball to net neutrality protections, we knew that California had to step in to ensure our residents have access to a free and open internet,” state Sen. Scott Wiener (D), […]
It just so happens that my Verizon phone/internet bill went up by 12% this month. I guess we better get our lawmakers to join the movement to keep net neutrality. Some of us here are already fighting to ban fracking in Pa., where we have more wells or planned wells than almost any other state, even though our Governor is a Democrat. I say if New York can do it, so can we.
Read an article recently that said most fracking companies are money losers. Apparently some on wall st are waking up to the fact that without high energy prices fracking is, horror of horrors, not profitable. The process is capital and labor intensive and the output from the wells drops rapidly over a short time span. How many of the new power plants built to use natural gas will be shut in the next few years? Then will it be back to coal or on to clean alternatives?
I have thought for sometime that this was going to be a “flash in the pan” much like the dot com bubble. Buckle up for the trump depression!