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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representing ISPs arguing that the law was preempted by the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 2018 order that repealed net neutrality rules.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.