The DOJ formally dismissed the lawsuit Monday. The suit was first filed in 2018 under ex-US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a Trump appointee. Former California Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, signed the California law in October 2018. California adopted the new rules after a Republican-led FCC in 2017 repealed federal rules that had been established under President Barrack Obama. When the FCC eliminated national protections for net neutrality, California used the Obama-era net neutrality protections as the basis for its state law. Those earlier ruIes prohibited internet service providers from slowing or blocking access to websites or charging companies like Netflix extra to deliver their service faster.
But California went further than the federal government in its protections of an open internet. It also outlawed so-called zero-rating offers, which allow carriers to exempt certain services from counting against a user's data cap. Additionally, the California law applies the net neutrality rules to so-called interconnection deals between network operators, something the FCC's 2015 rules didn't explicitly do. California is just one of several states looking to enact its own rules governing an open internet. States such as Washington have pushed through a net neutrality law, while others are considering it.
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