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Washington becomes first state to pass law protecting net neutrality

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Washington state looking out for their constituents. Bottom line is this law is more end user friendly and business friendly.

Washington becomes first state to pass law protecting net neutrality

In a bipartisan effort, the state's legislators passed House Bill 2282. which was signed into law Monday by Gov. Jay Inslee. "Washington will be the first state in the nation to preserve the open internet," Inslee said at the bill signing.

HB2282 bars internet service providers in the state from blocking content, applications, or services, or slowing down traffic on the basis of content or whether they got paid to favor certain traffic. The law goes into effect June 6.​
 
poweRob said:
Washington state looking out for their constituents. Bottom line is this law is more end user friendly and business friendly.

Washington becomes first state to pass law protecting net neutrality

In a bipartisan effort, the state's legislators passed House Bill 2282. which was signed into law Monday by Gov. Jay Inslee. "Washington will be the first state in the nation to preserve the open internet," Inslee said at the bill signing.

HB2282 bars internet service providers in the state from blocking content, applications, or services, or slowing down traffic on the basis of content or whether they got paid to favor certain traffic. The law goes into effect June 6.​
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Good on them and the fact it was largely bipartisan makes it all that much better.

EDIT: largely bipartisan in the house that is, the senate looks like most Republicans were against it.
 
poweRob said:
Washington state looking out for their constituents. Bottom line is this law is more end user friendly and business friendly.

Washington becomes first state to pass law protecting net neutrality

In a bipartisan effort, the state's legislators passed House Bill 2282. which was signed into law Monday by Gov. Jay Inslee. "Washington will be the first state in the nation to preserve the open internet," Inslee said at the bill signing.

HB2282 bars internet service providers in the state from blocking content, applications, or services, or slowing down traffic on the basis of content or whether they got paid to favor certain traffic. The law goes into effect June 6.​
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Does it work the opposite way also? It mentions ISPs not being able to get paid to play favorites but the main violation we have seen is ISPs extorting high bandwidth content providers to keep thier sites from being throttled
 
Crovax said:
Does it work the opposite way also? It mentions ISPs not being able to get paid to play favorites but the main violation we have seen is ISPs extorting high bandwidth content providers to keep thier sites from being throttled
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I think this bill is to keep them from extorting high bandwith content providers.

HB2282 bars internet service providers in the state from blocking content, applications, or services, or slowing down traffic on the basis of content or whether they got paid to favor certain traffic.​

I'm thinking if you are a small business who uses the internet a good bit, you won't be throttled trying to keep your business going.

Furthermore, Comcast is buying up everything so I can see them favoring NBC and throttling ABC, CBS, FOX limiting people's entertainment and news sources.
 
Thank god for a good sense Democrat governor....
 
Was wondering how they control bandwidth "within a state?
 
markjs said:
Thank god for a good sense Democrat governor....
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I dont know...he kept claiming he didnt have the power to veto that Legislator transparency bill right up to the end, when he did have the power.

Luckily a huge number of people contacted his office to object....
 
Lursa said:
Was wondering how they control bandwidth "within a state?
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I was wondering this too. Like these ISP's have to come up with a way to parse out regions of the country or else one state's policy will effect more than just their own state.
 
Im not in favor of what the results of this legislation will be but I am in favor of states deciding it for themselves. It will be interesting to see if the price for Internet climbs up while the speeds do not, or what the consequences will be. Other states should be keeping an eye on what happens there. If it works, great everyone will adopt it, if not, great other states will know better than to adopt it.

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Lursa said:
Was wondering how they control bandwidth "within a state?
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The Tier 1 providers will have to add additional hardware, charge the ISPs, who will in turn charge their customers.
 
Lursa said:
Was wondering how they control bandwidth "within a state?
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I'm not sure they can. It brings up a host of issues, which is why the FCC is normally in control of this. For example, if content originates in Florida, is routed across servers in six states, ending in Portland, then sent across the border to Washington, which state laws apply? If the HD Video downloads are throttled in Florida or Portland, would Washington's laws even apply?
 
dcsports said:
I'm not sure they can. It brings up a host of issues, which is why the FCC is normally in control of this. For example, if content originates in Florida, is routed across servers in six states, ending in Portland, then sent across the border to Washington, which state laws apply? If the HD Video downloads are throttled in Florida or Portland, would Washington's laws even apply?
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As I understand from some time ago, the state laws of the end user location apply (whoever "touches" the service being provided) in the terms and capacity of net neutrality.
 
poweRob said:
Washington state looking out for their constituents. Bottom line is this law is more end user friendly and business friendly.

Washington becomes first state to pass law protecting net neutrality

In a bipartisan effort, the state's legislators passed House Bill 2282. which was signed into law Monday by Gov. Jay Inslee. "Washington will be the first state in the nation to preserve the open internet," Inslee said at the bill signing.

HB2282 bars internet service providers in the state from blocking content, applications, or services, or slowing down traffic on the basis of content or whether they got paid to favor certain traffic. The law goes into effect June 6.​
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I hope this law covers all that it needs to so that their are no loopholes. As it is, I don't like having to sign into a site using additional clicks, as many as three, because the site offers something that they get paid for and I'm forced to at least see for a click's worth of time.
 
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