Open internet advocates are cheering after California lawmakers on Thursday reached a deal on proposed legislation that puts the state on the path to having the strongest net neutrality bill in the nation.
The news, said Evan Greer, deputy director of Fight for the Future, “shows the power of the internet to overcome business as usual and win real victories for the public.”
As the San Jose Mercury News sums up,
Wiener in fact declared that it became “a fake net neutrality ” bill after being “mutilated” by the industry-friendly provisions of Santiago’s amendments.
That development, as Katharine Trendacosta, policy analysts at the Electronic Frontier Foundation writes, sparked “an outcry from Team Internet in California, making clear how important effective, strong net neutrality protections are.”
Wiener, de Leon, Santiago, and assemblymember Rob Bonta (D) were able to come together, though, to hammer out a new proposal that consolidates the two bills into one package. As Trendacosta explains, the combination goes a long way to restore the protections the large Internet Service Providers (ISPs), like Verizon and Comcast, had wanted removed:
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