The Trump administration is suing California to quash its new net neutrality law

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The Trump administration said Sunday it will sue California in an effort to block what some experts have described as the toughest net neutrality law ever enacted in the United States, setting up a high-stakes legal showdown over the future of the Internet.

California on Sunday became the largest state to adopt its own rules requiring Internet providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon to treat all web traffic equally. Golden State legislators took the step of writing their law after the Federal Communications Commission scrapped nationwide protections last year, citing the regulatory burdens they had caused for the telecom industry.

Mere hours after California’s proposal became law, however, senior Justice Department officials told The Washington Post they would take the state to court on grounds that the federal government, not state leaders, has the exclusive power to regulate net neutrality. DOJ officials stressed the FCC had been granted such authority from Congress to ensure that all 50 states don’t seek to write their own, potentially conflicting, rules governing the web.

The move by Attorney General Jeff Sessions opens another legal battlefield between the federal government and California, which the DOJ has taken to court already for trying to bypass the Trump administration’s policies around immigration and climate change. “The Justice Department should not have to spend valuable time and resources to file this suit today, but we have a duty to defend the prerogatives of the federal government and protect our Constitutional order,” Sessions said in a statement.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/10/01/trump-administration-is-suing-california-quash-its-new-net-neutrality-law/?utm_term=.388a7b42fae6&wpisrc=al_news__alert-tech--alert-national&wpmk=1

So the GOP believes corporate rights trump state's rights.

[SWBTATTReg]

1. So, in effect the feds under rump are saying that states can't put their own state sales tax, ...

etc. on this type of traffic? I understand that states, within their boundaries have full control via their public utility commissions (PUCs), e.g., gas, water, electric, etc. and the rates we pay, including power supplies delivered from other states. We still pay what the state PUCs mandate, so this effort to reassert control of net neutrality will fail. This, if ruled to the negative by the FCC (controlled now by rump appointee I think), will still be fought in the courts by the rump admin. as well as carriers.

[roamer65]

5. Add auto insurance to that list.

The states have full jurisdiction over that business.

[Kajun Gal]

2. Do state's rights have any right to help?

[Tanuki]

3. Judge Brett Kavarape opposes net neutrality, should this make it to the Supreme Court

https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/internet-speech/brett-kavanaugh-chose-corporations-over-public-major-net-neutrality

[ProudLib72]

4. The Second Civil War started over net neutrality

That's what grade school children will be reading in the history books in 100 years.

What an idiot!

[roamer65]

6. CA has full rights to nullify any federal bullshit in this realm.

Most internet access is now through cable providers, which are given franchise rights at a local level. Therefore, a state definitely has a right to regulate intrastate commerce.