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

A new Free Press report profiles citizen journalists, who require the same First Amendment protections as traditional reporters.

Future of Journalism
Press Freedom

Verizon is trying to overturn the FCC’s Open Internet Order, which prevents ISPs from blocking, throttling or otherwise discriminating against online content.

Net Neutrality
Media Consolidation

Free Press Action Fund has teamed up with other groups to launch StopWatching.Us — a call for Congress to investigate the NSA’s invasive surveillance schemes.

Privacy
Surveillance

Programmers like Viacom force cable companies like Cablevision to carry channels they don’t want—and the impact hits customers’ wallets.

Media Consolidation

Cable-channel owners are increasingly driving the soaring prices in our cable bills. And the steep rates are prompting more and more people to cut the cord.

Media Consolidation

We don’t have TV in the traditional sense any longer. And thanks to industry lobbyists and outdated regulations, the modern video market is a mess.

Media Consolidation

Cable companies are paying more and more for programming — and forcing their broadband customers to shoulder the burden.

Internet Access
Media Consolidation