• kksgandhi@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Same thing happened with net neutrality, California put NN into law, and the rest of the country followed because it doesn’t make sense to build a separate Internet for California.

    • ironsoap@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      I understand this as the California Effect and similarly the Brussels effect. While both do change company policies, I do understand that many companies are going to continues to try and avoid a regulatory ruling as there is so much status quo market loss on the line for them.

      This article describes how they’ll be trying to use MOUs with nongovernment bodies to mollify consumers and regulators.