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WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, Voices for Internet Freedom, a coalition of organizations advocating for the digital rights of communities of color, filed comments calling on the FCC to maintain the strong Net Neutrality protections it adopted in 2015.

Critics of the Sinclair-Tribune merger, including Free Press, a Washington advocacy group, have accused Sinclair of trading sycophancy for favorable regulation.

WASHINGTON — On Monday, Free Press submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission, once again demonstrating that the 2015 decision to base Net Neutrality rules on Title II got it exactly right.

Grassroots effort to tap into cash from the sale of public airwaves will continue through the summer and into 2018 if need be, Free Press Action Fund organizers say.

Make no mistake: Net Neutrality is one of the defining workers’ rights and civil rights issue of our time. We all know the internet is driving changes in culture, politics and the economy. It is also one of the key spaces where workers can organize.

If you like being able to access any website you choose and have it load at the same speed as any other site, then guess what? You are a fan of Net Neutrality.

Remember the old days of dial-up, when it could take hours, sometimes days, to load a video clip online? Well, get used it — that could once again be the reality of surfing the web if Net Neutrality regulations are abolished.

If there’s anything lawmakers should have learned from activists over the past few years it’s this: Do not make the internet angry.

Open-internet activists hailed Wednesday’s massive online demonstration of support for Net Neutrality as a major success, but warned that the fight to stop the Trump administration’s plan to dismantle the Net Neutrality rules is only just beginning.

There is no question that the American people favor Net Neutrality. They are literally flooding the Federal Communications Commission with pleas for preservation of “the First Amendment of the internet.”