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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.

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.

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

Net Neutrality is a simple concept but a dense and often technical issue normally discussed in tech and telecom circles. Now it's hit the mainstream.

Before the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission made fun of himself, his critics, and the telecom industry at an annual Washington dinner, Net Neutrality activists protested nearby.

Free Press' president talks about Net Neutrality, the Sinclair Broadcast Group and what it's like to defend free speech and the open internet in the Trump era.

Open-internet advocates participated in planned protests on Thursday at congressional offices and more than 700 Verizon stores in all 50 states, plus D.C.

On Dec. 14, the Federal Communications Commission is due to vote on a plan to repeal its Net Neutrality rules. If this gets a green light, it will reshape the way the internet works in America, and most likely to the detriment of consumers and entrepreneurs.

Protesters demonstrated outside Verizon stores and congressional offices from coast to coast on Thursday to rally against the Trump administration’s plans to end Net Neutrality.

Chairman Pai’s repeal is a tactical trap designed to force Congress to legislate weaker rules. Net Neutrality proponents in Congress shouldn’t fall for it.