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The Republican-led Federal Communications Commission still hasn’t said if it will dismantle the Net Neutrality regulations, but it’s already picking apart the rules to make them less potent.

Until today, March 2 marked the date that internet service providers would be required to adopt “reasonable” measures to protect sensitive customer info like browsing histories, location data and Social Security numbers. Thanks to the FCC’s new leadership, however, that deadline will now be extended indefinitely, and we have no idea if or when those rules will be enacted.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, nearly 40 civil-rights, social-justice, labor and digital-inclusion groups sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission urging the agency to reverse its decision earlier this month that undermined the Lifeline Program.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission voted to extend and expand an unjustified exemption from its Net Neutrality transparency rules.

The Federal Communications Commission’s record-breaking $100 million proposed fine against AT&T may soon be relegated to the dustbin.

What’s ahead for the public interest under Ajit Pai’s FCC? We talk with Jessica Gonzalez, deputy director and senior counsel at the group Free Press.

Net Neutrality is under threat, but you can do something to defend it.

Millions of people wrote to the FCC and their elected representatives to demand Net Neutrality the first time around. We’ll need another “people-powered movement,” as Katrina vanden Heuvel calls it, to defend Net Neutrality yet again.

ISPs and the politicians who love them are wasting no time in killing broadband-consumer privacy protections.

Leading civil rights groups who for many years have been heavily bankrolled by the telecom industry are signaling their support for Donald Trump’s promised rollback of the Obama administration’s Net Neutrality rules.