CALIFORNIA — California - home of Google, Facebook, Twitter and other tech monoliths - may lead the way for states on net neutrality.

Calling the decision "a big problem for our democracy," California State Sen. Scott Wiener announced Thursday that he will introduce a bill in the California legislature to require net neutrality here.

"So in January," Wiener said in a video posted on Twitter, "when the California legislature goes back in session, I'm going to introduce legislation to adopt net neutrality as a requirement in California."

"Without net neutrality," he continued, "we can have a situation where it's easier to access websites that pay money and harder to access websites that don't pay money. If we want to have the great democracy that we deserve, we need to have a free and open internet, and that means net neutrality."