Ted Stevens (R) is an Idiot!
In case you haven’t heard, Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, articulately desribes the reasons against Net Neutrality. He refers to the Internet as a set of “tubes” and that the whole Internet was sent to him, among other things. Maybe he was getting the Internet and the Alaska Pipeline confused.
Remmeber, this is the same guy that got over $453M of federal funds for bridges in Alaska including the famous “bridge to nowhere“.
Here are some excerpts:
- “I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially.”
- “They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It’s not a truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material. Now we have a separate Department of Defense internet now, did you know that? Do you know why? Because they have to have theirs delivered immediately. They can’t afford getting delayed by other people.”
- “Maybe there is a place for a commercial net but it’s not using what consumers use every day.”
