Jeff & Konnor's Blog

Just in case you haven’t heard about it, we’ll do our part in propagating the jaw-dropping explanation of the Internet given by Ted Stevens, chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. That would be the committee responsible for any legislation regulating the Internet. During a committee meeting, he explained that:

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…

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.

Here’s Jon Stewart’s take on all this. Five minutes, definitely worth it.