WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission voted to adopt rules giving internet users more choice over whether and how broadband providers use private information.

WASHINGTON — According to media reports, AT&T Inc. is negotiating to buy Time Warner Inc. in a merger that could be worth more than $85 billion. The deal would bring together one of the nation’s largest phone and internet providers with an entertainment media colossus that includes CNN, HBO, TBS, TNT and Warner Brothers studios, among other properties.

WASHINGTON — On Monday, Free Press delivered nearly 25,000 petitions to the office of the North Dakota State’s Attorney demanding that authorities drop all charges against Democracy Now! journalist Amy Goodman and anyone else covering the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline project.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission released key details on the broadband-privacy rules likely to come up for a vote at the agency’s Oct. 27 meeting. The proposal builds on the FCC’s 2015 decision to reclassify broadband access as a telecom service under Title II of the Communications Act.

WASHINGTON — On Monday, Free Press joined other open internet advocacy organizations and allies in filing a joint response with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals supporting that court’s June 2016 decision to uphold the Federal Communications Commission’s Net Neutrality rules.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission delayed a scheduled vote on new rules for set-top boxes. Customers collectively spend billions every year to rent such boxes from their cable-TV providers.

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, Rep. Anna Eshoo introduced the Community Broadband Act of 2016 in defense of local communities’ rights to build and operate their own broadband networks.

WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, several news outlets reported that AT&T now exempts satellite company DIRECTV’s online video content from the data caps for AT&T Wireless customers.

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications published guidelines ensuring that the region’s internet users receive strong protections for open and nondiscriminatory access to the internet.

WASHINGTON — On Friday, several phone and cable companies and their lobbying groups formally requested en banc review of June’s federal appeals court ruling that upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s Open Internet Order.