AT&T is at it again, blocking the open Internet and finding devious new ways to stomp on innovation, nickel-and-dime its customers and add to its ever-growing profits.

Meanwhile, Facebook learned that, hey, maybe people don’t want their phones all Facebookified.

And coders are finding new ways to help people steer clear of government surveillance.

1.      You may recall that, upon the launch of the iPhone 5, AT&T began blocking use of the FaceTime video-calling app over mobile connections. The company relented somewhat in the face of consumer pressure, opening up mobile use of FaceTime to most — but not all — customers.

Now it’s pulling a similar stunt: Android users trying to use Google’s new Hangouts app on AT&T’s mobile connection will get a message saying they need to hop on to a Wi-Fi network. This could be yet another Net Neutrality violation for AT&T to hang on its mantel.

2.      Here’s another anti-consumer trophy for AT&T: Last week, reports emerged that ESPN has been talking to Verizon about using a “toll-free” data model for its apps. Basically Verizon would charge ESPN for letting its customers use ESPN apps without it counting against their data caps.

This week, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson got in on the game, expanding on his idea to apply the same concept — otherwise known as “burning mobile Net Neutrality to the ground” — to AT&T’s network. We were not happy.

3.      Vice has the story of how one “unnamed data junkie” used “simple hacking techniques” to “draw the most detailed map of the Internet known to man.”And it’s a pretty cool map.

4.      Turns out people aren’t psyched about Facebook taking over their entire mobile experience.

5.      Press freedom was in the headlines as we learned that the Justice Department had seized phone records of Associated Press journalists. In a prescient move, the New Yorker launched Strongbox, the result of a collaboration between the late Aaron Swartz and Wired’s Kevin Poulson. The tool is “an online place where people can send documents and messages to the magazine, and we, in turn, can offer them a reasonable amount of anonymity.”

6.      Had enough Internet freedom news? Then watch in horror as two restaurateurs feed the trolls on Facebook and reddit, prompting what Buzzfeed dubbed the “most epic brand meltdown on Facebook ever.”