"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."<p><i>Shame</i> on your blatant partisanship, EFF. This is a <i>flat lie</i>. 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 <i>against</i>):<p><a href="http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB822" rel="nofollow">http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtm...</a><p>Mashable has a somewhat more objective account, see:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17361154" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17361154</a><p>Even CNET reported it more objectively:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17359361" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17359361</a>