- California's state Senate late Friday said it tallied enough votes to pass the nation's toughest net neutrality law, advancing a fight with regulators who have been erasing those rules at the federal level.
- Voting is still open on the bill, but it has enough approvals to pass (and could gather more).
- The Senate joined in with California's State Assembly, which approved the measure Thursday. Gov. Jerry Brown's signature is the next step on a road that could lead to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Brown's signature would make California the fourth state to pass net neutrality regulations, but by far the most powerful one.
- California's law prevents Internet providers from blocking, slowing or favoring particular websites; bans providers from collecting new fees as a mechanism to reach Internet users; and bans "zero rating," where providers exempt apps (usually their own) from monthly data caps if such a move could hurt competitors in "abusive" ways.
- The new move follows on a sweeping state online privacy law that California passed in June.
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