The new California law is sweeping in its scope. California’s legislation — which sailed through both legislative chambers by comfortable margins — is considered the toughest in the nation, because its law goes further than the FCC’s 2015 net neutrality rules. In light of the FCC’s more recent deregulatory order, federal officials are asking for California’s net neutrality law to be invalidated, and industry groups are expected to join the effort. If the FCC is as powerless as it claims, the theory goes, then its attempt to ban states from regulating net neutrality is equally toothless. Barbara van Schewick, a law professor at Stanford University and an advocate for tougher net neutrality policies, agreed.

Source: Washington Post October 01, 2018 15:53 UTC