By Derek Fleming SACRAMENTO — Still sore about last week’s changes to his net neutrality legislation, state Senator Scott Wiener nonetheless championed the bill through the Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protections committee Tuesday. Pledging to push to reinstate language removed earlier, the Democratic...

By Nick Cahill SACRAMENTO — Two California Democrats crafting “gold standards” in net neutrality laws said Monday they will amend and combine their bills before a vote this week in the Legislature. State Senators Scott Wiener of San Francisco and Kevin de Leon of Los Angeles, both Democrats, said...

By Brandi Buchman WASHINGTON – Monday marks the end of net neutrality, the Obama-era policy that required internet service providers to treat all internet traffic as equal. The repeal of the 2015 regulation was approved by a deeply divided Federal Communications Commission last year, with chairman...

By Nick Cahill, Courthouse News Service SACRAMENTO – The California Senate on Wednesday approved a statewide net neutrality framework, advancing consumer protections experts claim are more stringent than the recently nixed federal laws. Democrats cleared Senate Bill 822 in a party-line vote, overcoming...

By Brandi Buchman WASHINGTON (CN) – The Federal Communications Commission is expected to publish notice of the end of net neutrality rules in the Federal Register this week, effectively starting the play clock on lawmakers who wish to stop the widely criticized reversal. The FCC board voted 3-2 in...

Ajit Pai, FCC Chairman Dozens of attorneys general including California’s filed a petition Tuesday challenging the Federal Communication Commission’s recent decision to roll back net neutrality rules. The petition, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, would block the...

(Washington, DC) – One week after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to reverse the 2015 rule to reclassify broadband internet as a Title II Common Carrier service, Representative Steve Knight (R-CA) joined as an original cosponsor of H.R. 4682, the Open Internet Preservation Act....

AG Xavier Becerra SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra issued the following statement in response to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision to repeal net neutrality rules instituted in 2015. These rules protect consumers’ access to online content without...

SACRAMENTO – Thirteen state attorneys general including California’s have expressed strong opposition to the Federal Communications Commission’s proposal to repeal net neutrality rules, which allow consumers to access online content without interference or manipulation by an internet service...