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WASHINGTON — On Friday, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced plans to sidestep the agency’s procedures to prevent implementation of part of the FCC’s landmark broadband-privacy rules.

A coalition of civil rights and digital advocacy groups is calling on the FCC to renew its commitment to Lifeline, a program that provides subsidies for internet access to low-income households.

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.

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

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.

Jessica González, deputy director and senior counsel at Free Press, discusses FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s attacks on the Net Neutrality rules and other consumer protections.