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.

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Small, Minority or women owned shell companies

[goombah99]

The ISPs will just set up partner relationship with local companies that will preferred for govt bussiness, such as the carve outs for supporting local, small, minority or women owned bussness many cogt have. Those shell companies will not violate net neutrality but their only customers will be the local govt. They will only have one peer and that will be verizon or whomever.

problem soved for ISP, and govt' gets to claim success too.

Re:Sigh

[Anonymous Coward]

They're not charging them with a crime, they simply won't do business with them. Happened in Glasgow Kentucky about 40 years ago. Local provider was price gouging. Local utility had set up monitoring system for power. Someone noticed that it had the bandwidth to handle cable, so the utility erected a headend. Provider sued, claiming an exclusive contract. Utility countersued, Federal court, claiming interference in interstate commerce. Guess who won? Electric Plant Board still operating, with better prices than all the competing options.

what if the feds make a law

[FudRucker]

and NOBODY obeys it, not even the armed forces, then all it is going to be is a handfull of crony fascist politicians in washington trying to brow beat the nation with paperwork,

this needs to happen more often and to more unjust laws and policies the federal government impose on the nation

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