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As soon as the FCC announced results of its broadcast spectrum auction, public-TV stations began to speak out about plans for their proceeds.

The sale of station-owned airwaves to shore up cellular networks offers a rare opportunity to invest in local news and public information needs.

Consumer groups and Democrats are fighting to save the rules, which they say prevent companies from playing favorites with websites and online content.

New Jersey has sold off two regional public-broadcasting television licenses for $332 million in a nationwide auction of broadcast television spectrum.

The Republican chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is moving to roll back his agency's Net Neutrality rules, a plan critics warn could deal another blow to online privacy protections.

Now that President Donald Trump and the Republican Party have gutted internet privacy protections, their next order of business is to fast-track repeal of groundbreaking Net Neutrality rules that proponents say ensure "access to social, political, and economic empowerment for all."

Trump's hand-picked Federal Communications Commission chief, Republican Ajit Pai, is preparing to work with the GOP Congress to roll back Obama-era Net Neutrality protections as part of the escalating Republican assault on consumer safeguards across broad swaths of the U.S. economy.

According to multiple reports, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai outlined his plans to undo the Obama-era regulations during a meeting with a group of industry lobbyists.

Couldn't they have just let us keep the internet? Was that too much to ask?

Matt Wood, policy director with Free Press, discussed internet privacy with Mike Rogers of Raw Story.