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The newly-relaunched website urges internet users to sign a petition demanding that Biden choose a fifth FCC commissioner who doesn’t have ties to the telecom industry, supports expanding broadband, and who supports reinstating net neutrality.
The site lists more than 20 groups supporting the effort and will direct their members and followers to the site to sign the petition.
Mark Stanley, the director of operations for Demand Progress, told the Daily Dot on Thursday that the newly relaunched site is meant to showcase a new immediate focus on getting an FCC commissioner without telecom ties and highlight the large advocacy coalition pushing directly for net neutrality restoration.
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California’s law has been at the center of a years-long legal battle, with trade groups representing ISPs arguing that the law was preempted by the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 2018 order that repealed net neutrality rules. The groups asked for a preliminary injunction to block California from enforcing its law, and Judge John A. Mendez disagreed giving the state the go-ahead to enforce it.
California’s net neutrality law does much of what the FCC’s 2015 order did. It prohibits blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization of internet traffic. However, it does go further by also prohibiting “zero rating,” which is when an ISP decides that certain services or content won’t count against data caps for a customer.