New York State to Introduce Net Neutrality Bill New York State is planning to craft its own net neutrality law in the wake of the FCC's repeal of the popular rules. New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is already conducting an investigation into the millions of bogus comments filed in support of the repeal; an investigation the FCC is refusing to cooperate with. Schneiderman is also leading a looming multi-state lawsuit against the FCC in the hopes of scuttling the FCC's repeal. But the state is also now cooking up its own net neutrality law in case that lawsuit fails to pay dividends.

State Assemblymember Patricia Fahy tells Fast Company that the bill should be introduced shortly. ISPs lobbying for net neutrality repeal expected this. That's why Comcast and Verizon have been lobbying the FCC for months, urging it to try and use its authority to ban states from protecting consumers against privacy harms or net neutrality violations. So, like loyal foot soldiers, the Ajit Pai FCC included a clause in its "Restoring Internet Freedom" proposal pre-empting states from protecting broadband consumers. That's a premise that's going to also be challenged in the courts, which struck down the Wheeler FCC's attempt to stop states from writing protectionist, competition killing laws. Still, lawmakers like Fahy argue that there's numerous other things states can do to protect neutrality, like refusing contracts to companies with a long history of anti-competitive, neutrality-trampling behavior. “If you are going to be a contractor and want to work with New York, then you must meet the principles," Fahy argues. "There’s a decent amount of precedent for saying, if you want a state contract, you have to meet such and such requirements," she added. Again, this is all going to be part of the massive legal battle that should begin shortly after the repeal hits the federal registry in January. Those interested in taking a look at Fahy's proposal can find it Again, this is all going to be part of the massive legal battle that should begin shortly after the repeal hits the federal registry in January. Those interested in taking a look at Fahy's proposal can find it here (pdf).







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Parkville, MD 5 recommendations microphone Premium Member How do you impose Net Neutrality on out of state packets? Suppose your NY ISP is totally cool and honest and treats all packets equally? But that ISP's upstream ISP, located in another state, has chosen to prioritize its own VOIP packets over everyone else's causing a degradation of quality for accessing third party VOIP providers. How would a NY law have jurisdiction over this situation without it dictating what upstream ISPs the NY customer's ISP uses?