California can enforce its tough net neutrality law, federal judge says

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It prohibits internet service providers from selectively blocking, slowing or speeding up apps and websites.

Industry groups had asked the US District Court for the Eastern District of California to issue a preliminary injunction blocking the legislation, but the groups' request was denied.The move is a major victory for internet activists and state legislators who had passed tough new regulations in 2018 after the Federal Communications Commission rolled back its own net neutrality rules.

The Trump administration had sued California in 2018 to prevent the law from going into effect, arguing that the FCC, not the states, held exclusive authority to set net neutrality rules. The Biden administration indicated it will not continue the litigation. But that still left a suit brought by industry groups including the American Cable Association, the wireless trade group CTIA, the cable trade group NCTA and USTelecom.

 

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Should not we demand context neutrality from the internet public media platform also?

MidweekHolySermon jesus is coming

Guess ending Net Neutrality, put in place by Obama, was not such a good idea....

Has anyone seen any difference at all as the FCC bounced back and forth on this?

RUN WHITE LIBERALS RUN😆

Since when has the Law ever stopped internet service providers from doing the wrong thing…?!

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