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Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska explains net neutrality and the internet:

There’s one company now you can sign up and you can get a movie delivered to your house daily by delivery service. Okay. And currently it comes to your house, it gets put in the mail box when you get home and you change your order but you pay for that, right.

But this service isn’t going to go through the interent and what you do is you just go to a place on the internet and you order your movie and guess what you can order ten of them delivered to you and the delivery charge is free.

Ten of them streaming across that internet and what happens to your own personal internet?

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. [Blog.Wired]

Listen to Senator Stevens on net neutrality.

Extra-special bonus, says of Deutsche Telekom, “Douche Telecom wants to spend $3.8 billion...”

[x-posted at Majikthise.]

Posted by on 07/03 at 12:25 PM

  1. Perhaps the good Senator wants to earmark some money for an Internet to nowhere?

    Posted by  on  07/03  at  03:22 PM

  2. The truly insidious thing about Senator Stevens’ remarks is that there’s no way of telling whether it’s an argument for or against net (let alone tube) neutrality. Advantage Congressosphere!

    The part where he mentions “using the messaging service that is essential to small businesses, to our operation of families” has definitely got me thinking about upgrading my operation of family, though. Is there a service pack?

    Posted by  on  07/03  at  03:46 PM

  3. That statement reads like a few of the Senator’s packets were dropped transiting brain and tongue, the survivors reassembled out of sequence. Hangovers work that way for me.

    A commenter at Slashdot suspects political theater. Pharma got the love last year, it’s Telco’s turn.

    Posted by black dog barking  on  07/03  at  04:44 PM

  4. Several internets short of a load, if you ask me.

    Posted by  on  07/03  at  07:59 PM

  5. As always, Kevin Kline in Fish Called Wanda said it best:

    “What was the middle one again?”

    Posted by  on  07/03  at  08:05 PM

  6. I’m glad to hear you can use a messaging service that is essential to the operation of families.  Families is where wings take dream!  And it’s going to be much easier to put food on your family when the Internets pie gets higher.

    I like this Stevens fellow.  He knows how to talk the talk.

    Posted by  on  07/03  at  08:17 PM

  7. God good! This is terrible. I have flecks in front of my eyes. An aura is forming. Noooooooo!

    Posted by Hattie  on  07/03  at  09:03 PM

  8. Not simple. The bill in Congress to eliminate net neutrality is being backed and lobbied by EVERY SINGLE ISP IN THE COUNTRY, theres only a dozen or so. If you think your “local” ISP wouldn’t do this think again, they’re nothing but a reseller for one of these larger corporations.

    Posted by stevensieragreg  on  07/04  at  01:17 AM

  9. That’s a very good Internet you posted, stevensieragreg.  I’ll be sure to send it to my Internet.

    Posted by  on  07/04  at  12:41 PM

  10. I’ve heard that some computer hackers have got violent programs that can send malicious internets at a rate of...golly...at least several a minute.

    Perhaps it was something like that that was congesting the senator’s tubes?

    Posted by Dominic Fox  on  07/05  at  08:33 AM

  11. I recommend using Drano for all your Internet problems. Works like a charm every time.

    Posted by Orange  on  07/06  at  05:28 PM

  12. Net neutrality ensures that websites like this don’t have to use the “country roads” while the big corporate websites use the “superhighways”. It sounds to me like you’re shooting yourself in a foot for a little ad revenue.

    Posted by ernestevans  on  07/07  at  04:05 AM

  13. Asking for govt regulation of the internet to protect

    against the threat of monopolists just seems like

    opening up a can of worms. Is balkanization really so

    bad anyways ???? It seems more likely to foster the

    development of new technologies and business model

    that an internet in permanent homeostatsis.

    Posted by vincentdamon  on  07/10  at  02:59 AM

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