California’s net neutrality bill is vulnerable to legal attack, EFF says

Enlarge / California State Capitol building in Sacramento. (credit: Getty Images | Bob Rowan)

The California State Senate this week passed a bill that would impose net neutrality restrictions on Internet service providers, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warns that the proposed law has a high chance of being thrown out in court.

"While well-intentioned, the legislators sadly chose an approach that is vulnerable to legal attack," EFF Legislative Counsel Ernesto Falcon wrote in a blog post yesterday. Falcon also provided California senators with a longer legal analysis a few weeks before the vote.

State laws can be preempted by federal policy, and the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality repeal ordered states to refrain from imposing their own net neutrality laws.

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