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Trump is attacking our communication rights on nearly every front. In its first 100 days, his administration has stripped away online privacy protections, expanded social media surveillance at the borders, gagged the press and threatened to destroy Net Neutrality.

It began as an academic subject with a wonky name — Network Neutrality.

But at its heart, the issue was simple: Internet service providers should treat all content equally.

Numerous opinion pieces running in publications like The Hill and Washington Examiner share two things in common: praise for Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposed rollback of Net Neutrality rules, and millions in undisclosed funding from the telecommunications industry for the writers’ organizations.

No act of the recklessly authoritarian Trump administration poses a greater threat to democratic discourse than the plan to gut Net Neutrality rules.

Here we go again. The Federal Communications Commission, now led by an anti-regulation ideologue appointed by President Trump, wants to gut the Net Neutrality rules that keep powerful broadband companies from calling the shots on the internet, at the expense of consumers.

A top U.S. court on Monday upheld the legality of federal rules protecting Net Neutrality, providing a much-needed boost to activists who are resisting efforts by Trump’s top telecom regulator to dismantle the Obama-era FCC’s policy

A federal appellate court has refused to revisit its decision to uphold the Net Neutrality rules.

The proposal Ajit Pai released last week could not only weaken the Net Neutrality rules, but get rid of them entirely.

WASHINGTON — On Monday, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit sitting en banc rejected the phone and cable industry’s ongoing legal effort to kill the FCC’s 2015 Net Neutrality rules.

Chairman Pai’s move prompted criticism from advocacy groups who see it as a threat to the digital freedom of communities of color.