Comments on: Senator Ted Stevens: "It's a series of tubes"

By: Lodgenet’s Internet IS a series of tubes! -- Alec Saunders .LOG

Lodgenet’s Internet IS a series of tubes! -- Alec Saunders .LOG — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:24:44 +0000

[...] turns out that Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was at least somewhat right. For some companies, including hotel services provider LodgeNet, the internet IS a series of [...]

By: Depatie and Stevens: Bosom Buddies -- Alec Saunders .LOG

Depatie and Stevens: Bosom Buddies -- Alec Saunders .LOG — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 18:54:34 +0000

[...] Clearly Robert Depatie has been spending too much time in Alaska.Â His arguments for why studios and content producers should subsidize his network were put forward by US Senator Ted “It’s a series of tubes” Stevens months ago.Â They’re just as wrong now as they were then.Â [...]

By: Golfus Maximus » Blog Archive » Neutralidad de La Red

Golfus Maximus » Blog Archive » Neutralidad de La Red — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:47:32 +0000

[...] Mientras tanto, se dicen disparates a mansalva, si quereis leerlos aqui estan todas. Dios mio que elemento [...]

By: Net Neutrality: Just Calm Down Everybody - Network Management Evolution - Because change is inevitable

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:08:43 +0000

[...] For those of you slacking in your late night TV viewing and news consumption, you’re missing some theatrical mania on both sides.Â Advocates for neutrality — where all data on the Internet is treated exactly the same — seem to gain a foothold every time a confused senator shouts something about “A series of tubes” or fails to understand that “email” and “Internet” do not, in fact, mean the same thing: “I just about snorted my coffee out my nose this morning reading excerpts of Alaska Senator Ted Stevens’ risible testimony explaining his opposition to some very basic net neutrality principles. ‘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.’ “That’s a helluva thing, when you think about it, sending someone “an internet”. Does he mean the bits, or the fiber and routers? And was it a whole internet, or just the backbone, or maybe a local loop? How big a truck do you need to carry an internet?” (From Alec Saunders Log) [...]

By: G Mangione

G Mangione — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:46:32 +0000

Is this the same Ted Stevens who was taped picking his nose ad naseum during the Clinton impeachment hearings?

By: SpeakingIP » Net Neutrality: The 900 Pound Red Herring

SpeakingIP » Net Neutrality: The 900 Pound Red Herring — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:38:40 +0000

[...] It seems that potential future threats to open Internet access are obvious to relatively few. Last mile access is the real issue, but if the public is getting their information from Internet luminaries like Senator Ted Stevens, they will never understand the potential peril to their â€œtubes.â€ How do I explain to my Mom that she might be paying several extra dollars per month for an â€œeBay Tokenâ€ on her Comcast bill someday? The idea that telcos could charge content providers like eBay, Google or Amazon more money for access to bandwidth, already paid for by Mom, is truly preposterous. The casual Internet user isnâ€™t getting the message and the Net Neutrality debate never going to deliver it. [...]

By: Civil Defense - a weblog by Joshua Breitbart » Snarky won’t save the Internet

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:54:56 +0000

[...] This blogger at least gets into the meat of the bill, pointing out that â€“ like his famous work on the $223 million “bridge to nowhere” â€“ Stevens is just trying to get more money for his constituents: an expanded Universal Service Fund that would put $500 million towards building broadband in rural areas like Stevens’s Alaska. Though some of this money will get spent in Alaska, the real beneficiaries will be the phone companies who will get to sell (closed) Internet service over the subsidized infrastructure. [...]

By: wondering » its a series of tubes…

wondering » its a series of tubes… — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:15:33 +0000

By: Stevens and Murdoch -- Alec Saunders .LOG

Stevens and Murdoch -- Alec Saunders .LOG — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:56:35 +0000

[...] For those following the Senator Ted Stevens “it’s a series of tubes“Â internet story, here’s a little more fuel for the fire.Â TVPredictions.com has learned that nearly 10 percent of Senator Stevens’ individual campaign contributions came from Rupert Murdoch, and employees of Murdoch owned companies, such as DirecTV, News Corp and FOX.Â They’ve also noted that Stevens’ telecommunication bill would heavily advantage satellite TV providers, at the expense of the cable companies.Â [...]

By: Commentary on Ted Stevens -- Alec Saunders .LOG

Commentary on Ted Stevens -- Alec Saunders .LOG — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:36:38 +0000

[...] It seems the dismay over Senator Ted Stevens’ idiotic comments about the Internet last week has reached a critical mass. Here are a few of the best items I’ve seen, outside of the usual VoIP suspects.Â [...]