COURTNEY STATEMENT ON THE REPEAL OF ‘NET NEUTRALITY’

WASHINGTON, DC—Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) made the following statement after the Republican-led Federal Communications Commission (FCC) repealed a 2015 rule that established net neutrality preventing telecommunications companies from slowing down or blocking access to individual websites:

"The reckless and outrageous decision by the FCC today overturns a 2015 rule that painstakingly balanced open access to the internet and low costs for consumers with the goal of supporting investment and economic growth," said Courtney. "There is absolutely no evidence that the rule was not working, and the only conceivable justification for the decision was fulfilling a political promise that this administration made to special interests. I look forward to working with my colleagues to reinstate the Obama-era policy of net neutrality that was working for the American people and small businesses who are the real drivers of the internet economy."

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