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.

“We're disappointed by the court's decision to deny the stay, but still plan to show the unlawful nature of the FCC's arbitrary and capricious decision under review in this case,” said Free Press Policy Counsel Gaurav Laroia in a statement.

"We welcome Commissioner Rosenworcel's return to the FCC," said Free Press' Craig Aaron. "She is one of the most knowledgeable commissioners ever to serve at the agency."

Timothy Karr, senior director of strategy for Free Press and Free Press Action Fund, said that a more severe sentence was merited.

At a recent event held in Asbury Park, local residents and members of the local media came together with Free Press Action Fund to brainstorm how proceeds from the $332-million sale of old public-media licenses should be used to better inform communities.