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WASHINGTON — On Monday, Free Press filed a letter with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler arguing in favor of the agency’s role to protect Internet users against privacy abuses by broadband providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon.

Renowned journalist and media critic Ben Bagdikian died Friday at his home in California. He was 96.

WASHINGTON — ­On Thursday, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler took steps to protect broadband users’ privacy, circulating a proposal to his fellow commissioners in advance of an expected vote on March 31 to open a new proceeding on the topic.

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler circulated a proposal to modernize the agency’s Lifeline program to help low-income households gain access to high-speed Internet services.

WASHINGTON — FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai claims that the FCC Open Internet Order is part of “President Obama’s plan to regulate the internet.”

WASHINGTON — In a speech on Friday, FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai claimed that investment by larger Internet service providers had “flatlined” since the agency passed its Open Internet Order protecting Net Neutrality in February 2015. This is false.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed the deceptively named “Small Business Broadband Deployment Act.”

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission proposed new rules to fulfill its congressional mandate to promote competition in the market for cable boxes and other video-navigation devices.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, a coalition of media-justice, Internet-rights and public-interest groups delivered more than 300,000 comments to the Federal Communications Commission in opposition to Charter Communications’ proposed $80-billion takeover of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks.

WASHINGTON — The House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology on Thursday passed legislation introduced by Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Illinois) that aims to limit the Federal Communications Commission’s ability to protect Internet users from abuses by broadband access companies like Comcast.