Senator explains the intArw3b - 07/10/06 12:27 PM
Classic case of opening your mouth when you have no idea what you're talking about. Remember, folks, these are the people who are formulating net neutrality policy.
A few gems:
"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."
"And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes."
"Now we have a separate Department of Defense internet now, did you know that?"
"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."
Complete text and audio here...
http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/?entry_id=1512499
A few gems:
"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."
"And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes."
"Now we have a separate Department of Defense internet now, did you know that?"
"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."
Complete text and audio here...
http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/?entry_id=1512499
