 So if you are a leftist or just a good person, you don't see a lot of political victory So whenever they happen, I absolutely wanted to take the time to highlight them and celebrate them and we absolutely got a monumental victory out of California with regard to net neutrality and It's because net neutrality activists have been absolutely relentless and they defeated Telecom Giants and when I say giant I want to be clear. We're talking about Behemoths, Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, so their lawsuit in order to strike down California's gold standard net neutrality law It's over and it's over because they're withdrawing. They are conceding. They're giving up. They're surrendering and Everyone who fought for this you did this as Evan Greer writes We just won a huge court victory for net neutrality The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a previous decision against the telecom lobbies attempt to prevent the California net neutrality law SBA 22 from going into effect and they further explained ISPs just dropped their lawsuit against the California net neutrality law After they lost three times in federal court huge win for digital rights and the open web Now this was unthinkable to me because these telecom Giants they have virtually unlimited funds They could fight this forever. So at some point if you just keep trying you're bound to get a win But they've given up For them to concede in this battle, that's no small thing. That's absolutely Giant California's law stands and there's nothing that they can do to change that now net neutrality is still not the law of the land But because these states like California and New York and Oregon and Washington have our own net neutrality laws Well, they can't do what they originally wanted to do when a jeep pie was head of the FCC and he Repealed net neutrality. So what this is going to do is not necessarily? Make them retreat all together, right? But I think that what they're gonna do is Refocus perhaps at the national level what they've been trying to do is block GG So who is an FCC nominee and if she gets confirmed then the FCC is no longer deadlocked They can undo the net neutrality repeal from 2017 that a jeep pie then FCC commissioner had passed And if that happens then that is their worst nightmare now for additional details on this Andrea Germanos of common dreams explains Associations representing the telecommunications industry on Wednesday dropped their legal fight to block California's gold standard net neutrality law Following a string of losses in federal courts the stipulation of dismissals filed in the US district court for the Eastern District of California bringing to an end a years-long challenge from major companies including AT&T Verizon and Comcast a Senate bill 822 passed in 2018 despite massive spending by the telecommunications industry The state-level bill restored the Obama era net neutrality protections repealed by the Republican controlled federal communications Commission in 2017 Evan Greer director of fight for the future called the development a huge win for digital rights and the open web John Bergmayer legal director at public knowledge also welcomed the lawsuits withdrawal as great news However, he added the effort to enact net neutrality rules nationwide must continue Which means the Senate must act to ensure we have a full federal communications commission that can restore these important consumer protections For all Americans other open internet defenders have recently urged the Senate confirmation of president Joe Biden's nominee To fill the empty and tie-breaking seat on the FCC GG zone now take a moment and guess who is blocking the confirmation of GG zone Just take a guess It's Republicans How often lately especially have we heard Republicans screech about big tech? censoring everyone well, the FCC has already stated their intent to Undo what a jeep I did now what a jeep I did is give these telecom companies like AT&T Comcast the authority to literally throttle anyone that They don't like Anyone so you know how you have internet currently you have internet access that is in theory equal, right? So when you go to YouTube Netflix any website the speed is the same but what these Telecom companies did was they lobbied very hard to have the authority to basically Slow down websites throttle traffic to websites that either they don't like who were their competitors perhaps and that Absolutely is not just anti-consumer, but it's anti-free speech and all of these free speech warriors on the right who are talking about how Wonderful it is that a billionaire purchased Twitter so he can restore free speech are at the same time blocking This FCC confirmation which would absolutely give the federal government more authority to regulate these free speech Violators these big tech companies, but all of a sudden they don't want to do that Hmm I wonder why it's almost like they don't actually give a shit about freedom of speech and they're just shills for these companies And what's interesting is that Ted Cruz one of the loudest defenders of free speech supposedly back in 2017? Before the FCC repealed net neutrality. He actually wrote an op-ed where he argued that not only should the FCC Repeal net neutrality But they should stop states from enacting their own net neutrality laws and a jeep pie like the good little puppet that he is He then put that provision into his repeal of net neutrality and then passed it So if you care about big tech and how much power they have well then you absolutely should be Fighting for net neutrality because net neutrality is what evens the playing field It doesn't allow these big tech companies like Comcast rise in AT&T to censor their competitors or censor voices who they don't like I mean imagine this world where net neutrality was repealed There's a ton of implications anti-consumer, but also anti-free speech Comcast could know that if I'm one of their customers and I'm saying bad things about them that they're busting unions For example, they could throttle my internet access and that would be perfectly legal Does that not violate freedom of speech according to these politicians? I mean it doesn't violate the First Amendment because this is a private company But they claim that private companies should uphold the principles of freedom of speech and I absolutely agree But if Comcast did this as Ted Cruz says that they should be able to does that not pose a greater threat to freedom of speech? Then Twitter blocking certain accounts arbitrarily I mean we're talking about the control of access to information on the internet here and this is a monopoly You can't just cancel Comcast if they throttle you and go to a different company Most people only have access to one internet service provider in their area So you don't have a choice in this instance You have to have net neutrality if you want to protect freedom of speech also It's anti-consumer because if they wanted to what they can do is they can Basically disaggregate the internet instead of just selling you all of the internet where you have access to all websites They can say well look if you want to buy the social media package which includes Facebook and Twitter and other social media websites like Instagram That'll be 1399 a month if you want to add on our video Program that'll be 2099 a month and you get YouTube you get rumble you get all of these Netflix So they can easily fuck over everyone because these internet service providers They hold all the cards if the internet is going to be viewed as you know The public square or a public utility as these free speech people like Elon Musk say Then they should be the loudest people fighting for net neutrality, but they're not they're silent And that's because they're full of shit if you care about freedom of speech net neutrality is one of the most important issues of our time And so this is a huge victory here But we have to make sure that GG sewn gets confirmed Republicans are blocking her But if they successfully block her then the FCC can't do what they have stated They want to do which is reinstate net neutrality make sure that the playing field is even and there's actually freedom on the internet So I don't want to gripe too much because this is a victory But the fight it will go on and I just want to let you know this is good news But you've got to keep the momentum in this direction. You've got to keep challenging them You've got to keep advocating for net neutrality Because it's not these idiotic right-wingers who are you know pro free speech as they argue against net neutrality It's it's us right back in 2017 I remember Ben Shapiro got massively disliked by his own audience because he advocated against net neutrality I mean people see through this right people see right through it So Democrats need to take up this issue and they've got a fight because not only is it a winning issue But it's an important issue and I'll leave that there