"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):
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 16.4 ms ] threadShame 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