Senators and the Internet

I am glad Senators know what the are talking about….

Recently, I read a news story in which Sen. Ted Stevens (R- Alaska) states why he voted against Net Neutrality. For those who don’t know what is going on, part of the senate is trying to make it so a few big companies control in the internet. The Net Neutrality (NN) bill would prevent that from happening.

Sen. Stevens gave his 2 cents on why he is against NN. Without going into too much detail of what he said, it is clear he has no idea what he is talking about.

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?

Two things are horribly wrong with that statement. A- he cannot speak. That sentence is all kinds of wrong, grammatically. B- ‘an internet was sent by my staff’? Well you probably just got it because there is a lot of internet. It took a while to download. He also said, We use this internet to communicate and we aren’t using it for commercial purposes.. Um…has he ever been on the internet? O right, he was suppose to get it Friday, but got it yesterday. So I guess Amazon, Ebay, and every online store out there are not really deemed ‘commercial purposes’ by Sen. Stevens. E-Commerce is just a fake term anyway.

After that he starts to get technical, about how the internet is a series of tubes. Tubes that get clogged. With stuff. Like the internet. I have no idea what his last 3 statements mean.

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 volition of net neutrality that hits you and me.

Huh?

The fact of the matter is maybe someone should O I don’t know….educate our senators as to how the internet works. And maybe send Sen. Stevens back to English class. Later