In June of 2006 U.S. Senator from Alaska Ted Stevens described the internet as a "series of tubes" during a debate over net neutrality. In addition to this he used other unusual terminology such as describing an e-mail as "an internet". It's kind of unnerving looking at how little the people making the legislation know about the internet in net neutrality, though his unusual comments sparked a number of funny remix videos.
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This is sweet! And yeah, I agree, except that our government does this a lot. Get's involved, pretends to know all the facts and then makes stupid decisions! Horrible!
What are you talking about? The US Government does things like THAT??!!
news to me
;-)
These videos are great! I fully agree with the idea that politicians knowing so little about what they have the power to change (for good and bad) is really scary. This goes to show just how great the generational/technological gap really can be. The worst part is that it seems as though these types of people in positions of power are content with being incompetent and are satisfied in hiring others to understand and learn for them.
"Before we begin though, I'd like to say a few words in defense of senator Stevens. The senator is right in some respects. The internet is not a dump truck. Here is a picture of a dump truck. With rare exceptions, people cannot use that picture to masturbate. Therefore, it's not the internet.
"Now, as for calling the internet a series of tubes, that, I admit, was not the most apt comparison. A better metaphor might be, oh, I don't know off the top of my head... A net? Or... An internet? Computers connected through a globally spanning mesh... of some kind?"
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