The internet is a series of tubes OFFICIAL THREAD

**Korly** · 13 Jul 2006, 07:37 PM

Originally Posted by Senator Ted Stevens

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 is now 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.

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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.

Serious information: http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/?entry_id=1512499

Less Serious Information: http://www.myspace.com/tedstevensfanclub

Public Knowledge, a nonprofit that has been fighting against the broadcast flag and for net neutrality, originally posted the recording of Stevens' odd, and technically inaccurate, explanation of why he was voting against net neutrality.

After a Wired News blog published a transcript of his remarks, they became a sensation over the long July 4 weekend, spawning hundreds of blog posts and comments at sites such as digg and Slashdot, and inspiring netizens to make T-shirts, PowerPoint presentations and songs lampooning the senator's assertion that the "internet isn't a truck ... it's a series of tubes."

The internet tube meme hit the big time when comedian Jon Stewart aired the audio on The Daily Show Wednesday night, complete with a helpful diagram illustrating how a tube-based internet might work. Here's that Daily Show link: http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/ind...try_id=1520334

Maybe this is already in a thread. It's funny, so that means it's automatically old and everyone has already seen it. But this thread is OFFICAL.

Oh, and here is a forensic analaysis of why the internet took 5 days to reach the senator:

http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/ind...try_id=1513010

**Rico** · 13 Jul 2006, 07:38 PM

I loved it when they played this on the Daily Show. Every time they went to a clip they changed Ted Stevens picture to an old prospector and finally Grandpa Simpson.

**Tenchimo Dos** · 13 Jul 2006, 07:40 PM

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?

Holy shit, I can't believe he actually said that.

**Drewbacca** · 13 Jul 2006, 07:43 PM

We already have a thread like this on the boards.

A) It's not going to work, the same people that are hogging all of his precious bandwidth while jacking off to photo's of Jessica Simpson are the people who will potentially be buying something from his online business. Smart businesses buy better servers to accomodate more people. So they're 8 billion times smarter, a better business in general and more importantly use the time that could be used writing pointless, poorly conceived letters over the internet to think up ways to make their business more competitive and less technologically braindead. Good job on the elitist bullshit, though. Your company really got that down top notch.

A2) The "commercial internet" will be dead. It will not be able to be viable as a sales tool because there will be no consumers on it. If they're talking about communicating in-company then they need an intranet anyway, they might as well use it.

The internet is like the roadways. It's free for people to use how they like (whether it be big trucks or small cars), but sometimes you have to wait. I guess patience and sharing isn't something this man's mommy taught him growing up.

Originally Posted by Tenchimo Dos

Holy shit, I can't believe he actually said that.

The article was a piece of shit.

**stormy** · 13 Jul 2006, 07:51 PM

lol, not that he needs people to discredit him any more than he already has done to himself, but the DoD has its own internet because thier shit is top secret.

**The_Meach** · 13 Jul 2006, 09:23 PM

I like how his "dump truck" analogy sounds like he's doing away with that analogy...as tho everyone is running around comparing the intertron to a dump truck:

"It's not like, I mean, y'know, a DUMP TRUCK, like you all make it out to be...it's a TUBE!"

Thanks for the clarification, old-timer.