Thanks to Senator Ted Stevens for his illuminating explanation of how the internet works.
“The Internet is not something you just dump something on. It’s not a truck. It’s a series of tubes,” Stevens said during a June 28 committee session.
“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.”
“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.”
Nice to know that the head of the Senate Commerce Committee has such a good understanding of technology as they debate “net neutrality” bills.