a senator explains the internet

[Guest guest]

Senator Ted s:

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 interent 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 violation of

net neutraility that hits you and me.

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Cory Doctrow's comment: " This man is so far away from having a coherent

picture of the Internet's functionality, it's like hearing a caveman

expound on the future of silver-birds-from-sky and why we need to keep

them from flying so high they anger the gods. "

Link to the full audio:

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..org/stevens-on-nn.mp3

-----My brother's comment:

So write to the ijit:

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I did.