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American Commitment, a small nonprofit with ties to the donor network spearheaded by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, has been actively opposing Net Neutrality with social media, commentaries and a little-known coalition whose members include other Koch nonprofits and prominent conservative groups.

Repealing Net Neutrality rules could allow internet service providers to cut speeds and jack up prices. We spoke with Joseph Torres of Free Press about the move.

With federal regulators poised to repeal Net Neutrality rules, your internet service provider would be allowed to speed up delivery of some online content to your home or phone.

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

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.

FCC Chairman Pai claims the Net Neutrality rules have harmed five small ISPs. But Free Press looked at the FCC’s broadband-deployment data for these companies and found that four of them had expanded into new territory. The fifth started offering gigabit-internet service.

t’s tough to keep up with the cavalcade of bad policy coming out of Washington, but the expected repeal of Net Neutrality has captured public attention for one reason: Everyone needs the internet, and we need it to be open and free.

In the days leading up to the Net Neutrality vote, we investigate the front lines of the fight for the 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.