SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge late Tuesday cleared the way for California to begin enforcing a net neutrality law opposed by US telecom titans.
The judge denied a request by cable and telecom service companies to stop implementation of the law, which is intended to prevent them from favoring their own services and blocking or slowing rival services like Netflix.
“The federal court just rejected the effort by telecom and cable companies to block enforcement of the net neutrality law I authored,” state senator Mark Wiener said in a tweet.
“California can now fully protect an open internet.”
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An alliance of telecom firms sued California, arguing the state overstepped its authority in passing the law because such regulatory power is the purview of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
The judge refused to issue a preliminary injunction to stop the law from being enforced while the case works its way through court, where it was not expected to prevail.
