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As state lawmakers headed to a month-long summer break, they breathed new life Thursday into an effort to pass a strong net neutrality bill in California.

Net neutrality is the principle that all internet traffic should be treated equally. In a clear victory for internet service providers, the Obama-era federal rules protecting net neutrality were recently repealed by President Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission. Since then, many states have adopted or are trying to adopt their own rules to protect their residents from internet services that may be degraded, slowed down, or changed in other ways.

The effort in California, headed by state Sens. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, and Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, seemed doomed after an Assembly committee effectively gutted SB 822, Wiener’s bill, a couple of weeks ago. De Leon had agreed to pair his bill, SB 460, with Wiener’s bill, but Assemblyman Miguel Santiago, D-Los Angeles, objected and introduced amendments to weaken SB 822.

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