Net-neutrality, schmet-neutrality...
You heard it here first: the reason net-neutrality is a bad idea, and will never work... is because—are you listening, now?&mdash"[The Internet is] a series of tubes!"
That's right folks. Tubes. "It's not a big truck."
I'm so comforted by the fact that we have informed people like Ted Stevens making policy decisions.
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check out the techno remix:
http://www.boldheaded.com/2006/07/dj-ted-stevens-techno-remix-series-of.html
Posted by: scratch | July 14, 2006 9:22 PM
Yeah, he sounds a bit stupid, but I understand the analogy he's trying to make. The internet is a series of wires through which data must travel, rather than some sort of large repository from which anyone can freely extract data.
Besides which, any policy the United States may apply to the internet will have little effect, as no other country will take a blind bit of notice.
Posted by: Greg K Nicholson | July 15, 2006 4:59 PM