Author: Klint Finley / Source: WIRED
Last month California passed the country’s strongest net neutrality law. But it will be a while before it takes effect.
The same evening Governor Jerry Brown signed the bill into law, the US Department of Justice filed suit to block it. On Friday, California attorney general Xavier Becerra reached a deal with the DOJ to delay implementing the law until a federal lawsuit over net neutrality is resolved.
That could take years.California’s law is designed to replace Obama-era rules by the Federal Communications Commission that banned internet providers like Comcast and AT&T from blocking or otherwise discriminating against lawful content. As part of an order passed last year jettisoning those rules, the FCC also banned states from passing their own net neutrality rules, though it’s not clear if the FCC has that authority.
The FCC order repealing those rules is…
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