Alaska Senator Ted Stevens finds himself object of ridicule on Web sites

Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, is enduring no end of ridicule in the blogosphere for his recent explanation, in a Commerce Committee debate, of how the Internet works.

Snorting loudest are bloggers who are angry at Stevens for not adding a nondiscrimination provision — known as "net neutrality" — to the communications bill that he wants Congress to pass this year.

"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, enormous amounts of material."

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The Internet Is Not A Truck. Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) explained why he voted against the amendment and gave an amazing primer on how the internet works. http://www.matr.net/article-19778.html