This is the ballot text for Amendment 1:

This amendment establishes a right under Florida’s constitution for consumers to own or lease solar equipment installed on their property to generate electricity for their own use. State and local governments shall retain their abilities to protect consumer rights and public health, safety and welfare, and to ensure that consumers who do not choose to install solar are not required to subsidize the costs of backup power and electric grid access to those who do.

Look carefully at the second of the two sentences: “State and local governments shall retain their abilities to protect consumer rights and public health, safety and welfare, and to ensure that consumers who do not choose to install solar are not required to subsidize the costs of backup power and electric grid access to those who do.”

What does the right to install solar panels have to do with: “State and local governments shall retain their abilities to protect consumer rights and public health, safety and welfare,” ? This isn’t the medical cannabis amendment, or the right to own surface-to-surface missiles amendment.

Finally we get to the real purpose: “ensure that consumers who do not choose to install solar are not required to subsidize the costs of backup power and electric grid access to those who do”.

To discourage people from using solar panels the utilities want to be able to charge those people huge amounts to be attached to the grid or simply refuse to connect them, to protect the people who don’t have solar panels from providing any kind of subsidy.

The FCC votes for users over ISPs:

“It’s the consumers’ information. How it is used should be the consumers’ choice.” So said FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler as the commission adopted rules requiring Internet service providers such as Comcast and Verizon to get customers’ permission before selling the data they collect to marketers.

The vote was 3-2 along party lines.

Note that this ruling applies to Internet Service Providers, not Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, etc.