<story><title>California Introduces Its Own Bill to Protect Net Neutrality</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/california-introduces-its-own-bill-protect-net-neutrality</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>Relevant anecdote: I&amp;#x27;ve recently switched to full-time hotspotting with Verizon, and I&amp;#x27;m still adjusting my Netflix habit to match.&lt;p&gt;Verizon, as usual, sent me my &amp;quot;you&amp;#x27;re at your last 10% before we throttle you&amp;quot; notice just as I went over my limit, and at the exact same time, DNS stopped working for netflix.com.&lt;p&gt;Everything else worked just fine, but none of the netflix.com properties would resolve.&lt;p&gt;I had lazily been using Verizon&amp;#x27;s DNS for my hotspot. Changing to 8.8.8.8&amp;#x2F;8.8.4.4 immediately brought it back online.&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t prove it wasn&amp;#x27;t just a glitch, but it was pretty damn suspicious anyhow, and exactly the sort of underhanded behavior I&amp;#x27;d expect from today&amp;#x27;s telecoms.</text></comment>
<story><title>California Introduces Its Own Bill to Protect Net Neutrality</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/california-introduces-its-own-bill-protect-net-neutrality</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Pilfer</author><text>Before anyone gets ahead of themselves, this bill only &lt;i&gt;protects&lt;/i&gt; net neutrality and does not enforce net neutrality as defined here &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Net_neutrality&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Net_neutrality&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;p&gt;ISPs are still allowed to discriminate traffic under this bill. They are allowed to block and throttle content such as illegal streaming downloads, some torrents, spam, and other traffic that degrades network performance. For example, this bill does not prevent Comcast, At&amp;amp;t, Verizon et al. from blocking port 25 as they have been for the past decade. The bill also does not preclude zero-rating.&lt;p&gt;This bill is a good thing yes, but let&amp;#x27;s not get ahead of ourselves and call this net neutrality.</text></comment>