I don’t usually post about specific politicians, but I did find Senator Ted Stevens’ explanation of the Internet rather remarkable:

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.

Your Own Personal Internet by Ryan Singel and Kevin Poulsen 26B Stroke 6, Thursday, 29 June 2006

This is the same senator who got Congress to approve a $223 million bridge to nowhere, that both the Sierra Club and the Heritage Foundation opposed; the latter referred to it as a National Embarrassment.

I guess he’s changed his expertise from bridge architecture to Internet pipe design. Anyway, this is why he says he voted against net neutrality.

Maybe it would be good risk management to elect some Congress members who have a clue about the Internet.

-jsq