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100 US Mayors Sign Pledge To Defend Net Neutrality Against Crooked ISPs (gizmodo.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: More than 100 U.S. mayors have signed a pledge to hold internet service providers accountable for net neutrality violations, despite the FCC's vote to repeal the regulations late last year. The pledge, initiated by Mayors Bill de Blasio of New York City, Steve Adler of Austin, and Ted Wheeler of Portland, promises that cities will refuse to do business with ISPs that violate net neutrality standards. The mayors, brought together by a coalition of open internet advocates, including Free Press, Demand Progress, and Daily Kos, have accused FCC Chairman Ajit Pai of caving to corporate interests by giving companies such as AT&T and Verizon the power to "block, throttle and slow access to sites and services at will." A complete list of the cities taking the pledge is available on the campaign's website. At time of writing, nearly 80,000 letters have been sent urging mayors across the country to participate.
Did you bother to read the pledge? Because what you wrote doesn't even apply.
Here it is:
Net Neutrality
I will support legislation and measures that ensure the protection of net neutrality principles and that remove any registration or other restrictive requirements on the provisioning of Internet content or services.
Ethical Campaign Donations
I will never accept campaign contributions from any company or individual that has lobbied for the removal of net neutrality regulations or for restrictions on municipalities to create broadband networks.
Municipal Broadband
I will support legislation and measures to create publicly-owned and managed municipal fiber networks, built to serve the residents and businesses of my community.
Government Transparency
I will support legislation and measures that promote the availability of government data to residents, as well as the usage of open formats and open standards in government.
Open Access to Knowledge
I will advocate for freedom of communication and access to knowledge, and I will support initiatives to ensure that publicly-funded intellectual property is made available in the public domain.
Freedom from Surveillance
I will not support any proposal for storage or surveillance of communications data that has not been subjected to credible, independent assessment for necessity and proportionality or that is not subject to regular review to ensure compliance with these criteria.
User Privacy and Data Protection
I will support legislation and measures that promote and protect the fundamental right of individuals to privacy and data protection, and the use of encryption and other privacy-enhancing technologies.
Worked also when Obama went after Arizona because it tried to protect it's citizens from criminal illegal aliens because the Federal government refused to properly enforce immigration law and border security as they are mandated to do as part of their sworn duty.
Constitutionally, Arizona has no authority over immigration law, it can't arrest anybody for simply being in the state, that's entirely a federal matter as even Scalia and Thomas admitted (they merely asserted that there was no conflict, so wanted to dismiss the case on those grounds), so you'd really have to work hard to assert otherwise.
Given that Obama also, as even Trump admitted, deported millions, it's hard to argue that there wasn't a proper enforcement of immigration law or a lack of border security that resulted from his administration, and if they had any legitimate complaints, they had representation in Congress to argue for their needs, as well as the right to petition the federal government.
Can you produce records of such petitions with any complaints that were not properly and duly addressed? Did their representatives fail them? If so, which ones and how?