The Ninth Amendment to the Constitution is the strongest statement therein that powers not expressly granted the State are retained as rights of the People. The State has misconstrued, misrepresented, ignored, and denied the People's rights by elimination of protections reserved alone to them, not recognized by the Supreme Court, the Legislative, and worst the Executive Branch in the illegitimate exercise of draconian powers which unlawfully disparage the inalienable rights of the People.
* https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/technology/net-neutrality-fcc-ajit-pai.html Pai OK'd More Media Mergers, Killed Low-Income Fast Internet, Let ISPs Raise Business Rates, Refuses Request Of Dozens In Congress And 18 State AG's To Delay Net Neutrality Kill Vote Due To Evidence Millions Of Fraudulent ISP Comments
Thursday, 26 February 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - In what is being seen as perhaps the biggest policy turnaround since the inception of the Internet with likely far-reaching consequences in preserving an "open" Internet for "the public good" the five-member Federal Communications Commission (F.C.C.) today is expected to line up a majority of its two Democratic Commissioners behind the proposal of its Democratic Chair Tom Wheeler (appointed by President Obama) to preserve "net neutrality" by regulating the Internet as a public utility with no "fast lanes" for the rich and also stopping intentional slowdowns by broadband companies, also known as "throttling", of Internet content providers' net traffic if they refuse to "pay up" to the broadband giants. The proposal also includes F.C.C. authority to intervene directly should any of the handful of wireless and broadband giants discussed below seek somehow to interfere with implementation of the proposal's prohibitions against "fast lanes" and "throttling".
The original F.C.C. proposal, promulgated with little or no public comment but rather heavy pressure from the National Cable & Telecommunications Association said to be the second most powerful corporate lobby in D.C. with an "army of lobbyists" funded by the small handful of cable and telecommunications giants dominating wireless and including the three -- Comcast, Verizon Communications and Time Warner Cable --which dominate broadband, would have permitted the establishment of "fast lanes" for the rich and sluggish service for the general public as demonstrated graphically by President Obama sitting on his desk lamenting the endless spinning circle of doom on the tablet he held while singing the praises of municipal broadband at fair and reasonable prices for all Americans racing at over one hundred times the speed of present commercial internet service of much of the nation's population.
The resultant public outcry overwhelmed Washington with President Obama reporting over four million comments against the original proposal as an opposing group of small and medium internet content providers and other activist groups helped facilitate the above-mentioned avalanche of passionate and engaged Internet users and consumers besieging the F.C.C. and elected officials for months. This then came to the point last October as described in the New York Times article linked to below of activist tech group Fight for the Future acquiring the direct telephone numbers of about 30 F.C.C. officials circumventing switchboards which resulted in the officials receiving about 55,000 direct phone calls from the public in about six weeks before the group "turned off the spigot".
Congressional Republicans' opposition to net neutrality meanwhile reportedly has faded in the face of the public onslaught leading to the concession of Republican leaders earlier this week to Obama and Democrats now lining up behind him supported by a very vocal public that they no longer wished to take independent Congressional action. As recently voiced by Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota, Republicans did not wish to proceed legislatively without bipartisan support and now reputedly also favor the same things, no fast lanes and no "throttling", that are contained in F.C.C. Chair Tom Wheeler's proposal to be voted on today. Therefore today's only public Republican opposition to the proposal apparently is widely expected to be two votes against net neutrality by the F.C.C.'s two Republican Commissioners.
For interested readers a second New York Times article published today of technology news analysis entitled "The Push for Net Neutrality Arose From Lack of Choice" also is linked to beneath the above-referenced article linked to directly below.
Monday, 26 January 2015 - The Ninth Amendment editorial board urges that all readers and Americans strongly consider taking this one historic opportunity to save "Net Neutrality" as supported by President Obama and demand in huge numbers that the FCC not cave to ALEC, the Koch Brothers, AT&T, Verizon,Comcast, Time Warner, other big telecommunications and cable nor anyone else by letting them grab publicly-owned internet bandwith. For the reasons set forth below by CREDO Action it is vital that open public access for all people regardless of wealth, position or power be preserved or restored where it already has been "awarded" to a single provider locally as to all public bandwith at a reasonable and fair price because if it is lost history shows there will be no going back once big money interests become entrenched in their "life in the fast lane" paying off politicians with the same money that pours in to them from their latest monopolistic grab of public bandwith that those same politicians would unfairly award them. Readers might as an analogy conceive of other public utilities such as water or power were consumers regularly have to endure on a daily basis "brownouts" of electricity or unavailability of the public water supply daily during peak hours of need by the biggest businesses, the richest and the most powerful.
The historic actions of the FCC as to public airwaves available for broadcast radio and television are instructive here as they were put in place seeking to prevent single entities from taking over large swaths of publicly owned airwaves across the country by periodic public bidding as well as limits on ownership so that the voices of many could be heard rather than just a few dominating the public airwaves. Nevertheless all are familiar with the takeover by single entities forming "networks" or even ownership of very large local stations such that they have became too rich and powerful at the public's expense to ever be displaced from those limited public airwaves again. If not for the foresight and tenacity of Clifford Durr in particular member of the FCC at that time there may not even be the one true radio and television station serving the public interest that Americans still have today, that of course being the non-commercial NPR and PBS owned by the People.
All the American people should not settle for spending the rest of their lives looking at a spinning arrow as they endlessly wait at their computers while the communications of the richest people and biggest corporations speed past at up to 100x that in the"priority" lanes that belong to and must be bandwith forever available to every American including all individuals and small business at a reasonable and fair price regardless of wealth or power.
Americans must make their voices heard now at this one historic opportunity to save their bandwith preserving the opportunity for reasonable and fair access to broadband for all or they may find themselves so fed up watching the circle of frustration spinning endlessly on their computer screens that they end up going down to the pony express station to send and receive their private communications the "fast way".
Stop AT&T, Verizon and Comcast from blocking fast and affordable Internet access.
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Dear Ninth Amendment Readers,
Imagine having affordable, lightning-fast Internet access at your home that is 50-100 times faster than the national average.1That could soon be a reality, but the shadowy American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is working to make sure it never happens.2
Nearly 20 states already have laws on the books stopping cities from providing fast, publicly-owned Internet access – and other states could soon follow suit.
President Obama just urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to make it illegal for states to block cities from providing affordable and fast Internet access – and the FCC is expected to make a decision very soon.
ALEC – a shadowy corporate front group that works to enact discriminatory voter ID laws, weaken gun safety laws and eliminate environmental regulations – is now pressuring state legislatures around the country to ban cities from offering broadband Internet access. ALEC is pushing its anti-municipal broadband agenda through model legislation it has developed, which one municipal broadband advocate described as “the kind of language one would expect to see if the goal is to protect politically powerful cable and telephone company monopolies.”3
Many perennial funders and members of ALEC, including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner,4 stand to gain financially from these state laws because they eliminate the possibility of competition from city-run broadband services.
According to recent surveys, nearly a quarter of Americans don’t have broadband Internet access at home.5 By pre-empting state laws that block municipal broadband, the FCC could help cities and municipalities provide fast Internet access to millions of Americans who don’t have it, and help create less expensive and faster Internet access options for tens of millions of others.
The FCC is planning to make a decision on President Obama’s proposal to protect municipal broadband in February.6 Before then, let’s make sure Chairman Wheeler and the other commissioners know that Americans want more access to fast and affordable Internet service, not less.
Wednesday, 23 April 2014 (UPDATED), SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Alas please indulge the Ninth Amendment editorial staff should this post momentarily bore any Ninth Amendment readers overseas, incarcerated or simply uninterested in a further post here sending out below the most recent offer received from the "socially conscious" CREDO alternative mobile carrier for whatever readers' own reasons may be (such as they communicate solely on landline phones and/or refuse to transmit data via anything touched by or passing through computers, the internet, satellites, air, fiber optics, or anything but copper telephone wiring).
The Ninth Amendment however given our many readers' steady return or first referral visits to the earlier posted CREDO offers here reproduced verbatim, particularly that making CREDO's previous offer of its cash buyout of other loathed major mobile carriers contracts such that that post available by clicking it at the bottom of this page or using the search box to the right has become one of the Ninth Amendment's all-time most "Popular Posts", here below reproduces verbatim CREDO's most recent received cash buyout offer.
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Maybe you're used to hating your phone company. Maybe you don't mind giving money every month to a big corporation that is actively working to undermine your right to an open Internet.
There's a big open meeting at the Federal Communications Commission on May 15th. It's expected that the FCC will address net neutrality at the meeting. Verizon and AT&T have already filed documents with the FCC opposing rules that would force Internet service providers to treat all web traffic equally. These big telecoms want to be able to divide the Internet into fast lanes for wealthy corporations that pay to play to reach their customers and slow lanes for everybody else.
AT&T has already tested the pay-to-play waters by creating corporate-sponsored mobile data programs. And a T-Mobile brand announced late last year it would allow users subsidized access to Facebook. In net neutrality terms, this is the on-ramp to a highway to hell where big corporations sculpt the Internet to their own benefit and make it harder for consumers to access independent and anti-corporate sources of content.
Here's what makes CREDO Mobile different. Instead of trying to end the Internet as we know it, we're fighting to save the Internet from the greedy corporations that want to turn the Web into a service they can dominate.
We've mobilized over 300,000 CREDO activists to urge the FCC to stop the corporate takeover of the Internet. CREDO activists are pouring calls into the FCC and key Senate and House districts every day. CREDO is proud to be a funder of groups leading the fight to save the Internet including Free Press, Demand Progress, and ColorOfChange.
When you join CREDO by May 31, you can get a great deal with $50 off the new Samsung Galaxy S® 5—our limited-time special offer price is just $149.99.† If your current phone company charges you a fee to cancel your service, we'll give you a CREDO bill credit of up to $350 to cover that cost (for each line transferred to CREDO, up to 5 lines—offer excludes equipment charges). We call it our Contract Buyout Credit.†
I hope you'll consider joining me as a CREDO Mobile member. You can give us a call right now at 877-346-0516—mention special offer code 318809 to get this great deal on the new Samsung Galaxy S 5—or click here to join online. You'll be glad you did.
† With two-year CREDO Mobile service agreement. Offer available only to new CREDO Mobile customers and subject to credit qualification. Offer cannot be combined with any other offers. Activation fee of $35/line applies. Rates do not include applicable taxes and surcharges or international charges. Data plan required for smartphones. Contract buyout credit: We will credit your CREDO Mobile account (up to $350 per line switched to CREDO, up to 5 lines) after you send us the contract buyout credit form, with proof of your prior carrier's service termination fee charges (offer excludes equipment charges). Offer available while supplies last.
Under CREDO's arrangement with Sprint, CREDO members have access to service anywhere on the Nationwide Sprint Network, reaching more than 280 million people. Although Sprint provides CREDO members access to its wireless network and to its wireless services, CREDO is responsible to CREDO members for the services. Please call CREDO with any questions or comments about services. Sprint is a trademark of Sprint.
All representations regarding CREDO's issue advocacy, contributions, and donations to nonprofits apply to CREDO only.
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AT&T is a registered trademark of AT&T Intellectual Property and is not associated with CREDO. Verizon Wireless is a trademark of Verizon Trademark Services, LLC and is not associated with CREDO. T-Mobile is a trademark of Deutsche Telekom AG and is not associated with CREDO.
Thursday, 10 April 2014, SAN FRANCISCO - The Ninth Amendment's readers overwhelmingly have responded favorably to the reproduced CREDO (Working Assets Mobile) post here months earlier offering readers who switch to CREDO immediately to pay off readers' full remaining time contracts chained to other major mobile phone network hell with consistently right-wing carriers including AT&T, Sprint and Verizon, which among other things are huge contributors to politicians such as Senator Ted "Superstupid" Cruz and his travelling Tea Party brain dead.
For readers who missed that earlier post to cash out readers' major evil carrier contract at CREDO's expense when switching to CREDO service readers may find that post with either the "Search Box" at the right or in the all-time most popular posts listed below the current posts at the bottom center of this page.
The Ninth Amendment here belatedly due to continuing New Zealand corruption-related interference as detailed in other posts again here has copied verbatim the new CREDO solicitation with links we received from CREDO for a new offer to take $15 off CREDO's monthly voice service when readers Bring Your Own Device (BYOD).
CREDO is the technological mobile socially-conscious successor to San Francisco's Working Assets Long Distance. Working Assets long has provided its customers with monthly free long distance opportunities and direct telephone contact information to share with persons in power such as their Washington, D.C. representatives a piece of their mind on current issues. CREDO follows that tradition with steady streams of circulated petitions and communications on pressing issues appropriate to these times.
The Ninth Amendment as always when presenting some product, service or related consumer issue in the body of a post receives absolutely no pay, no other remuneration whatsoever, nor does anyone or entity for posting this for our readers' evaluation. Nor has the post been communicated with CREDO in any way.
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In fact, our commitment to a cleaner, greener planet is one reason why we launched our new Bring Your Own Device program, also known as BYOD. Because when you reuse your phone, that's one more phone we keep out of landfill.
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Friday, 4 Octobeer 2013, WASHINGTON, D.C. - Superstupid Senator Ted Cruz (R- Texas, surprise, surprise) what more perfect de facto voice of that awesome phenomenon in the United States come to be known as the "Tea Party". The name evokes richly textured small-town communities of mostly more mature thoughtful women discussing topics in knitting circles with others they may have known for decades, not to mention of course the seminal American historical Revolutionary event which started the United States on its long and hard-fought road to independence.
Only fitting that Cruzian "Tea Partiers" of today distort that essential foundation of our Nation's history to debase it to a series of meaningless noisemaker events worthy of nothing more than the decimation of a collapsing country. Only this country to be rendered once again into the Republicans' timelessly failed recipe for repeated homeland economic disasters a la "Apocalypse Now", copyright the Doors, is our own fault.
As usual the big-slime corporate donors want readers wrongly to believe "they are helpless" but to keep dumping money in the coffers of social pariahs like ATT and Verizon busy using confused callers perpetually extending "contract fees" (i.e. their latest consumer ripoffs) vying for those coveted front tables at the latest iteration of their "Tea Party" luncheon where they can sit just feet (oh boy!) from the Superstupid Tea Partier Supreme (yesterday dragged from the House of Reprsentatives because he did not know which house of Congress to which he belonged blabbing his phony filibuster). Sentaor Cruz may have his no doubt gathering henchman explain to him who is giving what so that it is easier to keep it straight on "payback" day, which in the Republican spirit unabashedly was cemented by former movie star and poster child for the disadvantaged Ronald Reagan.
As best we recall before his Presidential inauguration speech had even begun Reagan's staff already had started working the front rows assuring luminaries such as then Searle President ("Pigheart") Cheney that that pesky aspartame ruling (causes brain cancer, does not everything?) would be reversed as soon as "Big Ron" could be taught to sign (no, NOT PRINT) his name to the orders to the FDA Administrator. No need to wait even until the Administrator could be replaced with someone more "enlightened", or should we say "encumbered" with the famous Cheney signature pallets of crisp new stacks of $100 bills straight from the mint press to the helipad do NOT pass time-consuming bill serial number recording.
Speaking of brain cancer why not FINALLY ALREADY turn our attention back to today and the selfless generosity of ATT and Verizon wireless extended to the "Tea Party" morons and most of all their self-styled brainless leader Senator Ted Cruz, hear the tea spoons clanking around in his empty noggin?). The link below will help fill in those "interested" (or shall we just say "thoroughly nauseated" readers) with fascinating key participation of these well-practiced sleight-of-contract cellphone grifters ATT and Verizon whom we might thank our lucky stars do not get in the automobile sales, leasing and repair business (as far as we know, that is) were we not reasonably confident that they left no stone unturned getting a hand in EVERYONE's pocket except maybe in those countries which do not yet have pockets.
The reported facts are presented in the CREDO cellular service advertisement set out below but are worthy of brief empahsis here. CREDO by the way is the modern-day mobile iteration of Working Assets which was the pioneer in social activism amongst long-distance landline carriers which monthly let its callers make free long-distance telephone calls directly to provided direct-dial numbers of callers representatives in Washington.
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Senator Ted Cruz is the ringleader of the current government
shutdown—taking millions of Americans hostage in an attempt to thwart
the will of voters in the 2012 election by defunding or delaying
Obamacare. He even sought to thwart the will of his fellow senators by
staging a rambling 21-hour faux-filibuster when he couldn't get enough
colleagues to join a real filibuster.
Thanks to the shutdown, more than 2 million federal workers won't get
paid on time—and 800,000 furloughed employees may never get paid for the
shutdown period. The CDC has halted its flu program, just as flu season
kicks into gear. National parks have closed, which is expected to cause
the communities around them to lose an estimated $30 million a day.
If the shutdown lasts more than a few weeks, millions of veterans may
not get their disability claims or pension payments, and low-income
pregnant women and new moms may stop getting the help they need to buy
healthy food for their families.
And who helped Mr. Cruz go
to Washington? Verizon Wireless and AT&T. Both telecom giants
contributed thousands of dollars to his 2012 Senate campaign.
On top of that, Verizon has contributed $220,600 and AT&T a whopping $1,093,000 since 2009 to members of the House and Senate Tea Party Caucuses, who have pushed Republicans in Congress to hostage-taking extremism.
At CREDO, we don't fund radical right politicians like Ted Cruz—we fight them. We fight through our powerhouse network of 3 million activists
at CREDO Action. Over the past week, we rallied more than 13,000 of our
activists to call Republicans and demand that they vote against the
shutdown. And another 9,000 called Democrats, urging them not to cave to
outrageous Republican demands.
We also donate millions of dollars each year to nonprofit groups working
for progressive change. Since 1985, we've raised $75 million for groups
like Planned Parenthood, Democracy Now! and 350.org.
The more members we have, the harder we can fight back against extremists like Ted Cruz.
