This Senator's Clear Grasp of How the Internet Works !


The Senate Commerce Committee deadlocked 11 to 11 on an amendment inserting some very basic net neutrality provisions into a moving telecommunications bill.

Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) explained why he voted against the amendment and gave an amazing primer on how the internet works.

One short exerpt:

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.

Read more of his wisdom on WIRED

Photo shows Senator Stevens, his wife and her panda

Comments

Anonymous said…
That would be funny if it weren't so pathetic!
Anonymous said…
Whoa, I'm feeling like a techie now! Did she mean to mimic the mama panda in the poster? What a strange picture and even stranger words!

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