Net Neutrality Blocked In Senate SubCommittee

[DudeAsInCool]

US Internet giants have suffered a defeat in the US Congress where an amendment on "Internet neutrality" was rejected by a Senate committee studying telecommunications reform.

Aimed at preventing network operators from charging an additional fee to websites seeking quicker and more effective connections for their users, the amendment failed Wednesday to gain a majority in the committee, which deadlocked 11-11.

However, the issue was to be examined by the Senate during its debate on telecommunications reform, the date for which has not been set.

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Source: Breitbart

Screw the phone companies!

[method77]

Excellent news. This is more serious than most think

[method77]

This is what Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) things of the internet. This asshole obviously has no idea what internet is yet he voted for the law. I can't tell you how angry this makes me...

"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.

They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.

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.

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."

WTF?????????????

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[DudeAsInCool]

Hmmm...the delay was with his email. The Senator is talking about the new hi=speed platform that some schools and the governmental agencies have, which was being called Internet II, which is not to be confused with 2.0 jargon. The Senator believes that a faster internet would be better for everyone and believes the telcoms are going to have to charge higher rates to build it.

[DudeAsInCool]

Net Neutrality Has a Spokesperson

07.05.06

Is Ted Stevens really the right guy for this job?

The Net neutrality bill took kind of a weird turn despite its defeat, when the public got to hear the mouthpiece for the telecom industry, Senator Ted Stevens. Wow. Stevens, an Alaska Republican, made a 10-minute speech before Congress that was something of a cross between a comedy act by Professor Irwin Corey and testimony by Casey Stengel, both famous for flubs, non sequiturs, and double-talk.

Stevens is most famous for diverting federal money to Alaska and especially famous for his grabbing $453 million needed for post-Katrina rebuilding to construct two bridges in Alaska, including the infamous "bridge to nowhere." He may be inarticulate and weird, but he does manage to benefit his state at a cost to the nation as a whole.

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PC Mag

You can hear Senator Stevens ramble on here incoherently:

Source: Public Knowledge

[method77]

Hmmm...the delay was with his email. The Senator is talking about the new hi=speed platform that some schools and the governmental agencies have, which was being called Internet II, which is not to be confused with 2.0 jargon. The Senator believes that a faster internet would be better for everyone and believes the telcoms are going to have to charge higher rates to build it.

No. The senator obviously does not know what internet is and he voted for just because some big company paid him big money for it. Simple but true.

[DudeAsInCool]

No. The senator obviously does not know what internet is and he voted for just because some big company paid him big money for it. Simple but true.

yours is a better translation

[DudeAsInCool]

Net Neutrality Has a Spokesperson

John Dvorak wonders if Ted Stevens really the right guy for this job

lol i just posted the same thing right above

[method77]

damn! I replied to your post above and forgot to read the next one

Lol @ a billion tabs that I have open

[Malicious Intent]

This is what Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) things of the internet. This asshole obviously has no idea what internet is yet he voted for the law. I can't tell you how angry this makes me...

"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.

They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.

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.

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."

WTF?????????????

Link

I know this is a serious issue and it is awful that someone with so much power can speak so cluelessly, but that made me laugh! What a twat! Are you sure it isn't a joke from The Onion??