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The Senate on Monday voted 52–41 to approve a new five-year term for Republican Ajit Pai, who currently heads the Federal Communications Commission.

In just nine months, Ajit Pai has ignited firestorms over Net Neutrality, broadband privacy and media mergers.

Open-internet advocates and Democratic lawmakers are mounting a last-ditch effort to remove Federal Communications Commission chief Ajit Pai over his anti-Net Neutrality stance, just days before Pai is set to be approved by the Senate for a new term.

Prominent Net Neutrality advocacy groups were targeted in a spearphishing campaign, with around 70 attempts made to break into the accounts of activists at Free Press and Fight for the Future.

The Democratic opposition to Ajit Pai's re-confirmation was launched today by Sen. Maria Cantwell (D–Washington), who accused the Federal Communications Commission chairman of abandoning the public interest.

AT&T is trying to take the fight over the Obama-era Net Neutrality rules to the Supreme Court.

This report describes “Phish For The Future,” an advanced persistent spearphishing campaign targeting digital civil liberties activists at Free Press and Fight for the Future.

Efforts have begun to try and derail the planned renomination for FCC boss Ajit Pai. Pai has been an indisputably anti-consumer ally of large broadband ISPs since taking office earlier this year.

Senate Democrats plan "very loud" debate on vote to give Pai a new term.

Sprint hired a lobbying firm with close ties to President Donald Trump's administration on Sept. 1, adding to Sprint's stable of federal lobbyists as it nears a deal to merge with wireless rival T-Mobile, according to disclosures filed with Congress this week.