Jeff Sessions said in a statement that “states do not regulate interstate commerce – the federal government does”
Sessions’ point is accurate, but almost totally irrelevant to the law. While internet content providers (like Google or Twitter or even me) operate interstate and internationally, intent access providers (like Time-Warner and Comcast), while they may be giant international companies, operate locally as access providers, and frequently have virtual monopolies.
In reality, the California law probably doesn’t go far enough. Since Comcast and Time-Warner also provide internet content, they should probably be forbidden from controlling access at all, just as Microsoft was once forbidden to make their browser a critical component of Windows. Without net neutrality, Time-Warner or Comcast can, in theory, provide decent access speed only to their own content and block or stall everything else. While Time-Warner has been relatively transparent and fair so far (with some exceptions), Comcast has been caught many times blocking unfriendly content, and then lying about it.