Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) explains the internet

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Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) explains the internet

Postby Bennett Cerf » Tue Jul 04, 2006 12:22 pm

Your Own Personal Internet

The Senate Commerce Committee deadlocked 11 to 11 on an amendment inserting some very basic net neutrality provisions into a moving telecommunications bill. The provisions didn't prohibit an ISP from handling VOIP faster than emails, but would have made it illegal to handle its own VOIP packets faster than a competitor's.

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

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 discrimnate against those people [...]

The regulatory approach is wrong. Your approach is regulatory in the sense that it says "No one can charge anyone for massively invading this world of the internet". No, I'm not finished. I want people to understand my position, I'm not going to take a lot of time. [?]

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 its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.


Now we have a separate Department of Defense internet now, did you know that?

Do you know why?

Because they have to have theirs delivered immediately. They can't afford getting delayed by other people.

[...]

Now I think these people are arguing whether they should be able to dump all that stuff on the internet ought to consider if they should develop a system themselves.

Maybe there is a place for a commercial net but it's not using what consumers use every day.

It's not using the messaging service that is essential to small businesses, to our operation of families.

The whole concept is that we should not go into this until someone shows that there is something that has been done that really is a viloation of net neutraility that hits you and me.


The full audio can be found here.

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Postby Chris M » Tue Jul 04, 2006 4:32 pm

Wow. I'm speechless. This fucktard is a SENATOR :shock:

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Postby Rspaight » Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:54 am

I'll bet most Senators are equally fucktardish on this issue, which is why the telcos are getting the world handed to them on a silver platter.

They're like my managers at work -- the only way to explain the internet to them is in terms of why their e-mail gets delayed or why msn.com isn't working. I'll bet Verizon and AT&T told them, "If you let us charge content providers to send data to our customers (who are already paying us to send and receive data), your e-mail will be faster."

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Postby Bennett Cerf » Thu Jun 12, 2008 9:42 am

Maybe Ted Stevens could be John McCain's running mate.

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Re: Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) explains the internet

Postby Bennett Cerf » Tue Aug 10, 2010 3:16 pm

RIP, I guess.

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Re: Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) explains the internet

Postby Lance Hall » Fri Sep 17, 2010 1:00 pm

Ya know sometimes it's good to have old people for wisdom about stuff but a lot of the time their view of the World only goes as far. I think at some point in your 20s or 30s you just stop absorbing anything new. We really need fresh blood up there, on both sides.