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Patchwork state privacy and net neutrality regulations are cumbersome and ridiculous. Any such requirements should be debated and enacted on the federal level.

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They were debated and enacted by the FCC on the federal level. One of the first thing Trump's FCC did was to repeal them:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/03/28...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/04/04...

The California legislature then tried to reinstate them for California,

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

but the bill was committeed to death:

http://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-califo...

The hitman was Kevin de Leon, a name you may recognize as he's now running for Dianne Feinstein's senate seat.

In any case, having failed to get a vote in the California legislature, its backers are taking it directly to the people.

I'd be happy to have these privacy rules on the federal level, but I'm glad that California is leading the way.

  Second California lawmakers shouldn't introduce laws that are detrimental to their state's companies.

California lawmakers should introduce laws that are beneficial to the privacy of their state's citizens.

e: You just edited your post to delete your second comment, I'm leaving my response.

The state's interests are in the companies interests and vice versa, they share in prosperity.

At a time when outsiders are going after them at least their home state should be relied upon not to follow suite.

Whatever happened to 'our business is business'?

I'm afraid that you may have misunderstood the basic principles of democracy.

It's not a direct democracy is it? these representatives are not blindly beholden to the whims of every Tom, Dick and Harry, they are also entrusted with the wellbeing of their constituency which ultimately means supporting existing and emerging local enterprises.

Companies can't vote, they aren't constituents. That's why they lobby.

Campanies are made of people and their economic impact goes far beyond those they directly employ.

First, federal action on this issue is not happening in the near future, when this issue needs to be addressed. To say it's a federal issue is to say that it shouldn't be addressed.

Second, huh? That's an argument for total deregulation at the state level and abdication of the state's responsibility to protect its citizens.

Protect them from what? this is a partisan knee jerk reaction to goings on in DC. More importantly these actions are potentially detrimental to local companies the interests of which are intertwined with the state's.

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