California passes strongest net neutrality law in the country

Posted by asimpletune on Friday August 31, 2018 @07:33PM
from the theverge.com dept.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/31/17805892/california-sb822-net-neutrality-law-vote

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Re:California passes strongest net neutrality law in the cou... by benlorenzetti on Friday August 31, 2018 @10:16PM (#17889763)

I hope that the FCC leaves well out of this, unless the state law later morphs into something that restricts home servers or favors California based servers

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Re:California passes strongest net neutrality law in the cou... by craftyguy on Friday August 31, 2018 @08:45PM (#17889473)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17886109

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Re:California passes strongest net neutrality law in the cou... by intopieces on Friday August 31, 2018 @09:28PM (#17889620)

>legal content

Does this mean the ISP gets to decide if something is legal?

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Re:California passes strongest net neutrality law in the cou... by m1573rp34130dy on Friday August 31, 2018 @11:32PM (#17890037)

...there are other efforts that may require ISPs to decide if something is [il]legal...[Re:] MPAA, RIAA...

one example of many... https://www.eff.org/tr/deeplinks/2017/04/another-lawsuit-tri...

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Re:California passes strongest net neutrality law in the cou... by siruncledrew on Friday August 31, 2018 @09:00PM (#17889530)

This is great news. I hope California fights the ISPs hard in court. Surely, the ISPs are going to work up some plan to try and get around this.

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Re:California passes strongest net neutrality law in the cou... by m1573rp34130dy on Friday August 31, 2018 @11:46PM (#17890073)

verizon seems to be having a hard time understanding what an ISP should be doing...[California, British Columbia]

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjkmbn/verizon-fi...

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