California’s net neutrality bill is now the model for all future state and federal legislation. It completely reinstates the 2015 Open Internet Order, including protections for interconnection and against anticompetitive and anti-consumer zero rating practices. This is what Internet users across the political spectrum have said they want by overwhelming majorities.

Californians, and indeed all Americans, owe a debt of gratitude to SB 822’s original sponsor, Senator Scott Weiner, the bill’s supporters, and Governor Brown. The pressure from the big broadband providers to kill or water down the bill was enormous.  But thanks to the great work of consumer, grassroots and net neutrality advocacy organizations, academics and ordinary Californians, those efforts were beaten back over the many months of debate over this bill.

What happened in California should send a message to other states and to Congress – the American people want the open Internet protected, and they will fight extremely hard until they achieve that goal.