Failing the Real Test: SB 822 No Longer Restores All the Lost Net Neutrality Protections

On June 20, SB 822 had its first committee hearing in the California Assembly. The bill, authored by Senator Scott Wiener, sought to bring back net neutrality to California and restore all of the important protections that the FCC voted to eliminate in December. It was widely viewed as a net neutrality model bill that would set the standard for other states. But instead of passing the bill, the committee adopted amendments that effectively gutted it, removing critical protections at a time when they are more important than ever.    Led by chairman Miguel Santiago, the Communications and Conveyance Committee adopted hostile amendments to SB 822 that cut key parts of the bill, including the ban on charging websites fees for access to an ISP‘s customers, the ban on circumventing the bill‘s protections via interconnection practices, and the bill‘s provisions on zero-rating.    But the committee removed much more than that.   The amendments…

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