Ted Stevens Explains the Internets
The Alaska senator, most known for
his shameless pork-barrelling and hostility to the environment, spoke at a Senate Commerce Committee meeting the other day on the subject of "
net neutrality." [A hugely important issue, by the way.]
Not, of course, that Stevens seems to have any idea what the Internet is.
He said...
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 internet 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.So you want to talk about the consumer? Let's talk about you and me. We use this internet to communicate and we aren't using it for commercial purposes.We aren't earning anything by going on that internet. Now I'm not saying you have to or you want to discriminate against those people ....
Read the
whole statement here. Will this man ever retire? And will
Alaska ever elect a representative who does that state proud?
