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Public-interest groups sent a letter to Congress demanding a clean budget free from ideological policy riders. The letter — which includes more than 50 state and local organizations as signatories — was organized by the Clean Budget Coalition, which is calling on Congress and the White House to pass a clean budget that funds and protects thriving families and communities.

Cox Communications rolled out plans to enforce new data-overage fees. "It's really a penalty and not anything related to an actual cost," says Matt Wood of Free Press, a digital rights advocacy group.

Data from internet service providers themselves show that these firms have moved to offer people faster connections and better choices since the FCC's Net Neutrality rules were adopted.

Activists, companies and organizations are collaborating to push back against the FCC’s vote to begin rolling back the Net Neutrality rules. Those rules, enacted under the Obama administration, block internet service providers from slowing down some sites or charging them extra fees to reach their audiences.

The country's largest internet service providers may have enthusiastically endorsed FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's plan to gut the Net Neutrality rules, but some smaller providers feel differently.

Cable giants are increasingly pushing aggressively into the wireless industry. In the latest example of that trend, Comcast and Charter are negotiating with Sprint to offer wireless services to their cable and high-speed internet customers.

Breaking ranks with AT&T, four other large internet service providers are asking the 9th Circuit to rule that the Federal Trade Commission has the authority to prosecute AT&T for allegedly duping wireless consumers who purchased "unlimited" data plans.

Fundraisers who raised cash for Clinton's campaign are helping corporations lobby to overturn Net Neutrality, deregulate finance and build prisons.

TV station powerhouse Sinclair Broadcast Group raised a few eyebrows in April when it hired Boris Epshteyn as its chief political analyst. Epshteyn, after all, was a combative TV surrogate for President Trump during the presidential campaign and briefly was a Trump administration press aide, raising an obvious question: How independent would his political analysis be?

Netflix is now planning to participate in the Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality on July 12, protest organizers said.