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Law to Keep the Internet Tap Wide Open During Wildfires

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Remember when Verizon "throttled" firefighters' internet access while they were fighting the Mendocino Complex Fire?

Lawmakers do, and they've got a bill to keep it from happening again.

State Assemblyman Marc Levine, a Marin County Democrat, introduced a bill that breezed through two committees and is now closer to becoming a law.

The tech news site Ars Technica, which broke the throttling story last year, reports that the mobile industry's main lobbying group opposes the bill.

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