The Department of Justice has sued the state of California after Governor Jerry Brown signed California’s first net neutrality bill, SB822, into law Sunday evening. It’s the start of a new chapter in the never-ending battle to keep the internet healthy and competitive in the face of growing telecom monopoly power.

Like the FCC’s dismantled 2015 net neutrality rules, SB822 prohibits ISPs from unfairly throttling or blocking websites and services that compete with an ISP’s own offerings. The bill also places meaningful restrictions on behaviors like “zero rating,” a practice that lets deep-pocketed companies buy an unfair advantage by exempting their content from arbitrary broadband usage caps and overage fees. SB822 also prohibits the kind of anti-competitive interconnection shenanigans that slowed customer Netflix streams back in 2014.

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