California Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday signed into law legislation that seeks to restore net neutrality rules for the state’s internet users. The law, which was introduced in January shortly after the Federal Communications Commission overturned its own Obama-era net neutrality rules, is the most aggressive state-level defense of those principles since the FCC’s reversal.
It prompted an immediate lawsuit from the Justice Department, which accused California of “attempting to subvert” the federal government’s deregulatory agenda. The 2015 Open Internet Order had banned internet service providers from throttling or prioritizing certain types of content.
