Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Monday, October 1st, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough today.

California is ready to do battle over net neutrality.

Instagram is under new management.

Elon settles with the SEC and Tim Bernersley kind of wants a do-over on that whole

world wide web thing. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Let's come back to the ongoing battle over net neutrality in the United States.

The headline here is that California enacted a new net neutrality law on Sunday,

and the Justice Department immediately announced that it would sue California to stop it.

So let's take a minute since it's been a while to remember how we got here.

In 2015, the FCC adopted nationwide net neutrality rules.

These new rules came despite strenuous objections from Republicans on the committee, most notably

Agitpai. When the Obama administration turned over control to the Trump administration, Pye became chairman of the FCC

and in June 2018 set about repealing those rules with the approval of the US Senate.

So that happened, but one crucial point is that the new FCC rules prohibit states from enacting their own net neutrality regulations.

The goal there was to provide a single nationwide set of rules for companies to follow.

In the wake of that move, 20 state attorneys general filed lawsuits against the FCC arguing that their states should be allowed to put net neutrality in place in their states at the very least.

Four states also went ahead and crafted their own net neutrality laws.

California is the biggest state to enact such a law and the first to face a court challenge.

California's new law actually goes a little further than the previous Obama era rules.

A lot like how California's vehicle emission laws go farther than federal emissions standards.

Under the new California regulations, which won't go into effect until January

ISPs are prevented from blocking or throttling internet traffic to broadband customers

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