California Net Neutrality Law Gets Green Light in Ninth Circuit

California can enforce its law banning internet service providers from blocking or slowing data flows following the Federal Communications Commission’s 2018 repeal of Obama-era net neutrality rules, the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday.

After classifying broadband internet services as information services, the FCC no longer has authority to regulate them in the same way it did when these services were deemed telecommunications services, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said. It therefore can’t preempt state action in this space, including the 2018 California law—called SB-822—that essentially codified the prior federal net neutrality standards within the state, the court ...