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For Immediate Release
STATEMENT OF COMMISSIONER JESSICA ROSENWORCEL 
ON FCC LEADERSHIP’s PLAN TO ROLL BACK INTERNET RIGHTS
WASHINGTON, November 21, 2017. — FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel 
released the following statement: 
“Today the FCC circulated its sweeping roll back of our net neutrality rules. Following 
actions earlier this year to erase consumer privacy protections, the Commission now 
wants to wipe out court-tested rules and a decade’s work in order to favor cable and 
telephone companies.  This is ridiculous and offensive to the millions of Americans who 
use the Internet every day. 
Our Internet economy is the envy of the world because it is open to all. This proposal 
tears at the foundation of that openness. It hands broadband providers the power to decide 
what voices to amplify, which sites we can visit, what connections we can make, and 
what communities we create. It throttles access, stalls opportunity, and censors content. It 
would be a big blunder for a slim majority of the FCC to approve these rules and saddle 
every Internet user with the cruel consequences. 
I’ve called for public hearings before any change is made to these rules, just as 
Republican and Democratic Commissions have done in the past. We should go directly to 
the American public to find out what they think about this proposal before any vote is 
taken to harm net neutrality.” 
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Office of Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel
Twitter: @JRosenworcel
This is an unofficial announcement of Commission action.  Release of the full text of a Commission order constitutes 
official action.  See MCI v. FCC, 515 F.2d 385 (D.C. Cir. 1974).