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That's incorrect. The amendments strip out other protections from the 2015 Open Internet Order.

1) A ban on circumventing net neutrality at the point of interconnection. The FCC order said it would do this using Secs 201 and 202 (Title II) of the Telecommunications Act. This stopped the Comcast/Verizon throttling and shakedown of Netflix and Cogent.

2) The amendments stripped out the ban on access fees, the practice of charging websites simply so that they load for users. This was banned in 2010 and 2015 as special kind of blocking. Verizon sued over this in 2012.

3) The amendments pull out any oversight of zero-rating, where the 2015 rule allowed the FCC to use the general conduct standard to review ALL zero-rating programs. In 2017, an FCC report said that AT&T and Verizon's self-dealing zero-rating programs violated net neutrality. That's what SB 822 did before the amendments.

That's only the big ones. SB 822 is now far weaker than the 2015 order thanks to Santiago.




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