This month, Texas became a cautionary tale when upon a severe winter storm, the state’s power grid was knocked on its heels. Millions of residents there were left without electricity and heat for days while other citizens were hit with shocking five-figure electric bills. This happened in large part because Texas lawmakers have pursued energy deregulation for decades.
California enacted SB-822 soon after the FCC during the Donald Trump years pulled back from classifying broadband as a"telecommunications service" subject to regulation under Title II of the Communications Act.
And the judge seemed less than impressed with how the ISPs patted themselves on the back for not engaging in throttling, blocking and paid prioritization of traffic. As the industry implicitly was asking: Was there really a need for net neutrality rules? But Judge Mendez ultimately disagreed with the assessment that California’s net neutrality rules were preempted by federal law and found that the telecom companies were unlikely to prevail on the merits of its claims that this amounted to impermissible regulation of interstate broadband. Much of his reasoning had to do with the specific way the FCC had disclaimed its authority to regulate broadband as well as the lack of preemption language in the 1934 and 1996 Telecommunication Acts.
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Thank you Scott_Wiener
Beautiful.
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Oh good. We can see in real time what a horrible idea it is to regulate the flow of information.