Democratic lawmaker attempts to gut California net neutrality bill
June 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
A Democratic state senator from California attempted to gut the nation’s toughest net neutrality bill by railroading through standard procedure and forcing a vote on a set of amendments removing the stricter regulations.
On Monday, two California lawmakers struck a deal to combine two competing net neutrality bills in the hopes that it would speed through the committee process and provide the state with a stable net neutrality regulatory framework. The bills, SB 822 and SB 460, from Senators Scott Wiener and Kevin de León, respectively, were both introduced as responses to the Federal Communications Commission’s reversal of the 2015 Open Internet Order last December.
The lawmakers agreed to combine the two through a process known as…
