Blog

These are the ideas, insights and stories that are central to the fight for your rights to connect, communicate and organize for justice.

This was an eventful year in the fight for media and technology that’s free of oppression and accessible to all. These moments kept us encouraged and going strong.

Free & Open Internet
Net Neutrality
Internet Access
Communications Crisis in Puerto Rico
Future of Journalism
Media Consolidation

We’re confident that this year without Net Neutrality is an aberration — and that the days of Chairman Pai’s assault on the open internet are numbered.

Net Neutrality

In 2016, Free Press released a report showing that systemic racial discrimination contributes to the digital divide. The Pai FCC is only making matters worse.

Internet Access
Communications Crisis in Puerto Rico

Sinclair’s chief political analyst has defended the teargassing of asylum seekers and other heinous Trump-administration actions.

Media Accountability

A group of Free Press staffers attended the Facing Race conference “to listen, to be in community, to strengthen relationships with our allies who are doing racial-justice work.”

Media Accountability

Some leaders at Facebook have no problem taking pages from the White-supremacist playbook to further their goals.

Free & Open Internet
Platform Accountability

This holiday season, we at Free Press are grateful for the amazing lawyers on our staff who are fighting to stop the FCC from gutting our communication rights.

Net Neutrality
Media Consolidation