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WASHINGTON — Kids and parents will rally on the steps of Capitol Hill with well-known PBS characters at 11 a.m. EDT on Tuesday to deliver more than 660,000 petition signatures urging Congress to reject Donald Trump’s efforts to eliminate federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Trumpism is slowly taking hold on your phone and computer as newly installed federal regulators begin chipping away at hard-fought protections on privacy and competition.

Free Press Field Director Mary Alice Crim participates in a panel discussion along with UMass Professor Martha Fuentes-Bautista.

Stations that serve rural areas neglected by corporate media would lose their funding.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, President Donald Trump proposed the elimination of all federal funding for public broadcasting, a main revenue source for local PBS and NPR stations across the country.

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to rethink how people around New Jersey stay up to date with what’s going on in their communities and the state. The state’s participation in the recently concluded FCC spectrum auction, in which it sold off its old public-TV licenses, is bringing in hundreds of millions in new public revenues.

TRENTON — Free Press Action Fund on Wednesday called on the New Jersey legislature to use money from the auction of the state’s public-TV stations to create the New Jersey Civic Information Consortium, a joint initiative with four of the state’s leading universities to invest in community-information needs.

Last Thursday, Verizon proudly announced that it would begin offering “data-free streaming,” joining a growing number of carriers that are letting customers stream videos and music from specific services without it counting against monthly usage caps. That might sound like a sweet deal, but it also undermines the basic principles of Net Neutrality.

Republicans in Washington are showing they really don’t care much about your online privacy.

Internet privacy rules just got a step closer to being rolled back. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Friday added his name to the list of co-sponsors of a resolution that would undo FCC rules preventing broadband internet providers from collecting certain kinds of customer information.