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Trump FCC Chairman Ajit Pai — a former Verizon exec — claims we can count on ISPs to voluntarily refrain from abusing their natural monopolies to degrade service to their customers in order to maximize their profits.

Just a few years ago, powerful grassroots pressure rose up to protect a free and open internet.

WASHINGTON — On Monday, the FCC and the FTC released a draft “Memorandum of Understanding” on the ways the agencies will allegedly work together to protect internet users after the FCC guts the open-internet protections.

WASHINGTON — A coalition of Net Neutrality advocates plan a large protest outside Federal Communications Commission headquarters on Dec. 14 before the agency votes later that morning on Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposal to undo the open-internet protections. The Net Neutrality Wake-Up Call Rally is hosted by Voices for Internet Freedom, a coalition of groups focused on the digital rights of communities of color.

Net Neutrality is a simple concept but a dense and often technical issue normally discussed in tech and telecom circles. Now it’s hit the mainstream.

Before the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission made fun of himself, his critics, and the telecom industry at an annual Washington dinner, Net Neutrality activists protested nearby.

Open-internet advocates participated in planned protests on Thursday at congressional offices and more than 700 Verizon stores in all 50 states, plus D.C.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, more than 30 press-freedom, civil-liberties and open-government groups submitted a letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai urging him to cancel the Dec. 14 vote to undermine the open-internet protections.

Protesters demonstrated outside Verizon stores and congressional offices from coast to coast on Thursday to rally against the Trump administration’s plans to end Net Neutrality.

On Dec. 14, the Federal Communications Commission is due to vote on a plan to repeal its Net Neutrality rules. If this gets a green light, it will reshape the way the internet works in America, and most likely to the detriment of consumers and entrepreneurs.