Showdown looms as states resurrect net neutrality rules

Published September 25, 2018 4:00am ET



The fight over government-mandated net neutrality is heating up again as states resurrect rules discarded last year by Republicans on the Federal Communications Commission.

The clash is likely to unfold in court, as FCC Chairman Ajit Pai declares a bill that passed California’s legislature “illegal,” and as Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener, the bill’s sponsor, fires back that Pai is “parroting” false corporate talking points.

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