the next steps.”

State legislators passed the law during a special one-day session in March. Members of the General Assembly called themselves into session to pass the law, which was introduced after 10 a.m. and signed into law around 9 p.m. the same evening. It was passed to preempt a local ordinance passed in Charlotte that would have required business to provide transgender bathroom accommodations. The law also banned local LGBT non-discrimination and living-wage ordinances.

The backlash to the law has been fierce. Musicians have threatened boycotts, businesses have canceled job-expansion plans, conferences have been canceled, and the NBA says it will move the 2017 All-Star Game, planned for Charlotte, if the law remains unchanged. Democrats have filed a bill to repeal the law, but they are badly outnumbered inFrench President Emmanuel Macron released an international agreement on cybersecurity principles Monday as part of the Paris Peace Forum. The original signatories included more than 50 nations, 130 private sector groups and 90 charitable groups and universities, but not the United States, Russia or China.

The big picture: The Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace is another step in the disjointed effort to create international norms and laws for cybersecurity and warfare. In most international matters of regulating the internet, there tends to be a wide split between the liberal Western order and authoritarian nations like Russia and China.

Details: The agreement does not command any specific legislation.

The principles include agreements to promote human rights on the internet, thwart election hacking, cease the theft of intellectual property via