More state accounts are expected
Morrow told Ars that he is worried about his bill to opposition to internet providers, although he noticed that Comcast already offers a cheap plan in Vermont that “should only be better advertised.” Morrow said that he has modeled his bill on New York law and that he is optimistic about the passage.
“I am optimistic, but there is a lot going on now, so it is certainly not guaranteed,” he said.
More state accounts are expected. “A number of states will consider stepping into the vacuum left by the FCC and the courts that decide that the FCC has no jurisdiction about broadband networks and the ACP congress,” said Blair Levin of New Street Research Policy Blair Levin . Levin was Chief of Staff of FCC chairman Reed Hundt during the Clinton years and supervised the American National Broadband Plan during the Obama Government.
“I expect more [states] Will focus on helping households with a low income than on net neutrality, “Levin continued.”
ISPs will fight the laws at state level and encourage the FCC to prevent them, Levin noted. But the FCC lost an attempt to prevent all national neutrality laws during the first Trump administration, whereby a Federal Court of Appeal said that “in any area where the Commission lacks the authority to regulate, the authority is also missing to prevent the Studies Act . “
States should not regard legal challenges as an important roadblock, Van Schewick told Ars. “Case law is now very clear that when the FCC is powerless to protect consumers online, the states can intervene to protect their residents,” she said. “They can create their own protection of net neutrality, as California and others do, require affordable broadband options such as New York and setting broadband privacy protection such as Maine. All these laws are maintained for the court.”
