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California seeks to regulate the internet
Good news for californians their Democrats have drafted a bill to bar ISPs such as Comcast, AT&T and verizon from playing favorites with online content.
Even tho the 2015 net neutrality rule enacted under President Obama’s Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) end the 11th June, there's still hope.
In fact, they are mirroring it to bring back neutrality.
The bill’s author, Sen. Scott Wiener said : “States are still relevant. California has the right under its police powers to protect the health and safety of the public [...] “
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What is net neutrality ?
Net neutrality is the idea that Internet service providers such as AT&T, Verizon Wireless or T-Mobile should treat equally all online traffic running through their network. Big companies such as Netflix or Google don’t get special treatment. With net neutrality, for instance, Google doesn’t run faster than your grandmother’s blog.
Without net neutrality, let’s imagine that you want to watch a video on Youtube. If you didn’t subscribe to a bundle that includes Youtube via your ISP, either you cannot even go on Youtube, or in the best case, you can’t see the video with a quality higher than 144p with a very low connection.
