Nuked California’s landmark net neutrality law, erected in 2018, was immediately blocked by lawsuits from Trump’s Department of justice and the telecom industry.
The judge declined to grant the telecom industry the preliminary injunction it had requested. The law can go into effect – and the judge does n’t think the industry is likely to win.
Judge Mendez believes it should be up to Congress to say whether net neutrality should exist. The Hollywood Reporter’s eriq Gardner and Mike Swift had been following the decision live.
Mendez says it should be up to Congress, not federal courts, to regulate # netneutrality. He says Congress must’keep up with what is going on in the real world’.
I’m not expressing anything on soundness of policy. That’s better left to Congress,’ he said. Judge addresses what he says is’elephant’.
The DOJ dropped its own lawsuit challenging the California law earlier this month. The telecom industry’s possible preliminary injunction was the last thing standing in the way.
The acting chairwoman of the FCC has spoken out about the matter. She has been appointed as the FCC’s acting chairwoman.
The FCC rolled back its # netneutrality policies. States like California sought to fill the void with their own laws. Tonight a court in California decided that the state law can go into effect.
California state senator Scott Weiner, who authored the bill, is celebrating. The bill author Scott Weiner is credited with the bill.
Sb 822 is the strongest net neutrality law in the nation. We worked incredibly hard to pass this law, overcoming massive corporate opposition.
As a California resident, he knows it’s past time to fix the Internet. He says the Internet fix is n’t a good thing to do with the Internet.
