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"Assemblymembers Quirk-Silva, Kamlager-Dove, Holden, Bonta, and Low abstained or were absent while the remaining Democratic and Republican Assembly members joined together to vote in hostile amendments that gutted a whole array of consumer protections of the bill."

Shame on your blatant partisanship, EFF. This is a flat lie. The committee action that gutted the bill was totally Democrat-authored and the process Democrat-controlled. Democrats voted 7-0 for this (Republicans 2-1 against):

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtm...

Mashable has a somewhat more objective account, see:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17361154

Even CNET reported it more objectively:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17359361