Friday Fun on Tuesday: The Internet is "a series of tubes," according to Alaska Senator

We don't like to get into politics on this blog, but this was just too funny to keep to ourselves.  Regardless of Senator Ted Stevens's political afilliation, he had some pretty exciting views about the 'Net, which freely shared during a discussion on net neutrality.

From Wired Blogs' 27B Stroke 6:

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 discrimnate against those people [¿]

Glean more of the Senator's Internet wisdom, and learn why that Internet took five days to reach him.

(Not enough laughter for you? Here's the techno remix!)

Comments

[Shawn A. Hessinger]

Now I know what happened to those summer vacation photos I e-mailed to my mother-in-law in Florida!