Still time to restore

true net neutrality

Big money reared its ugly head again at an Assembly Communications and Conveyance Committee hearing Wednesday as they took up SB 822, a bill to restore and preserve the net neutrality stripped from all of us by the Trump administration in December.

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Sen. Scott Wiener drafted the bill, but Chairman Miguel Santiago forced adoption of a series of hostile amendments which gutted the bill, much to the delight of the telecommunications industry, and over the strong objection of a host of good-government groups.

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Craig​ Dunkerley

San Jose

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