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    Washington Becomes the First State to Pass Its Own Laws to Preserve Net Neutrality

    Muhammad Irfan RazaBy Muhammad Irfan RazaMarch 7, 2018Updated:February 7, 20202 Mins Read
    Washington Becomes the First State to Pass Its Own Laws to Preserve Net Neutrality
    Washington Becomes the First State to Pass Its Own Laws to Preserve Net Neutrality
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    Washington has become the first state to pass a law that protects net neutrality, preventing internet service providers (ISPs) from slowing down or blocking online content. Democrat Governor Jay Inslee signed the bill (House Bill 2282) this morning, which prohibits ISPs from blocking legal content, apps, and services. It will also prevent the slowing down of connection speeds, also known as throttling, as well as paid prioritization, where ISPs favor certain traffic that’s beneficial to them.

    Washington Becomes the First State to Pass Its Own Laws to Preserve Net Neutrality

    “At the core of our action today is consumer protection,” Inslee told The New York Times. “States need to act because under the Trump administration, we have seen citizens, including seven million in Washington, stripped of core protections like the open internet.”

    The Associated Press points out that this is not technically the first net neutrality law (Oregon has also passed legislation), but it’s the first law where violations by all ISPs are enforceable, under Washington’s Consumer Protection Act. The Federal Communications Commission approved a measure to remove net neutrality rules in a 3-2 vote back in December. The FCC prohibited state laws from contradicting the decision, so it’s very likely ISPs will sue Washington state over this new law to find out if the FCC does have the power to preempt the move.

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    The FCC’s order that killed net neutrality claimed that individual states implementing their own net neutrality laws would cause too much difficulty and confusion if rules were made on a state by state basis.

    Since the FCC approved the removal of net neutrality rules, a host of lawsuits have cropped up.

    Today we make history: Washington will be the first state in the nation
    to preserve the open internet with our own #NetNeutrality law. The open internet lives on for Washingtonians. pic.twitter.com/3wsmAycWLN

    — Governor Jay Inslee (@GovInslee) March 6, 2018

    The FCC’s new net neutrality rules are expected to kick in for the general public on April 23rd. Washington state’s net neutrality law will go into effect by June 6th.

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    Irfan Raza is Editor at TechWafer covering Everything about Apple including Mac, iPhones, iMac, iMac Pro, MacBook, and How-tos.

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