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:Small, Minority or women owned shell companies

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:We need global dark fiber.

[Alain Williams]

I wish the United States had a healthy government.

You have the best government that money can buy.