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New Jersey auctioned off a public treasure — several of its public-TV stations — for possibly hundreds of millions of dollars, with little public debate or any idea of what the governor plans to do with the money. But it’s not too late to seize this moment and use this money to transform New Jersey into the national leader in digital public media, local journalism and civic technology.

The future looks grim for digital privacy and the open internet in the United States. Thankfully, there are people who have long been in the fight and are taking active steps to help safeguard our digital rights.

Trumpism is slowly taking hold on your phone and computer as newly installed federal regulators begin chipping away at hard-fought protections on privacy and competition.

Free Press Field Director Mary Alice Crim participates in a panel discussion along with UMass Professor Martha Fuentes-Bautista.

Stations that serve rural areas neglected by corporate media would lose their funding.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, President Donald Trump proposed the elimination of all federal funding for public broadcasting, a main revenue source for local PBS and NPR stations across the country.

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to rethink how people around New Jersey stay up to date with what’s going on in their communities and the state. The state’s participation in the recently concluded FCC spectrum auction, in which it sold off its old public-TV licenses, is bringing in hundreds of millions in new public revenues.

TRENTON — Free Press Action Fund on Wednesday called on the New Jersey legislature to use money from the auction of the state’s public-TV stations to create the New Jersey Civic Information Consortium, a joint initiative with four of the state’s leading universities to invest in community-information needs.

Last Thursday, Verizon proudly announced that it would begin offering “data-free streaming,” joining a growing number of carriers that are letting customers stream videos and music from specific services without it counting against monthly usage caps. That might sound like a sweet deal, but it also undermines the basic principles of Net Neutrality.

Internet privacy rules just got a step closer to being rolled back. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Friday added his name to the list of co-sponsors of a resolution that would undo FCC rules preventing broadband internet providers from collecting certain kinds of customer information.