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Senator Ted Stevens on Net Neutrality

July 5th, 2006

Think that the lobbyist aren’t behind this Net Neutrality issue? Listen to the lead Senator pushing against Net Neutrality babble on. He babbles along and lets the Senate know that he has absolutely no idea what this issue is about. John C Dvorak sums it up

Wow. Stevens, an Alaska Republican, made a 10-minute speech before Congress that was something of a cross between a comedy act by Professor Irwin Corey and testimony by Casey Stengel, both famous for flubs, non sequiturs, and double-talk.

Here is an excerpt where Ted Stevens explains the Internet to all of America.

“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 it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.”

Ted Stevens is also big on calling this issue a comsumer bill of rights but then says:

“…when it comes to the providers versus the owners of content, and all that sort of thing, that is a battle between billion-dollar people. They should hire their own lawyers, not the FCC.”

http://www.pcmag.com/

Listen for yourself : stevens-on-nn.mp3

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