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During a recent public hearing convened by the Assembly Budget Committee, Mike Rispoli, a former statehouse reporter, asked lawmakers to consider establishing a news consortium using $100 million from the anticipated auction proceeds.

The future looks grim for digital privacy and the open internet in the United States. Thankfully, there are people who have long been in the fight and are taking active steps to help safeguard our digital rights.

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.

New Jersey auctioned off a public treasure — several of its public-TV stations — for possibly hundreds of millions of dollars, with little public debate or any idea of what the governor plans to do with the money. But it's not too late to seize this moment and use this money to transform New Jersey into the national leader in digital public media, local journalism and civic technology.

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

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

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.

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.