Ignorant people in positions of power

This is the contraption I use to "get an internet". Why, what do you use?

Senator Ted Stevens gave us his woefully bizarre explanation of the internet during Senate hearings, giving a scary vision of what lawmakers and common people imagine when they picture the internet. I'm surprised he didn't mention the handcrank powered modem:

Boing Boing: Sen. Stevens' hilariously awful explanation of the Internet:

Senator Ted Stevens, a neutricidal maniac who wants to allow the phone companies to charge Google and others for delivering their packets to you, gave this incredible description of his understanding of how the internet works. This man is so far away from having a coherent picture of the Internet's functionality, it's like hearing a caveman expound on the future of silver-birds-from-sky and why we need to keep them from flying so high they anger the gods.

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, enormous amounts of material.

posted by Cory Doctorow at 11:45:49 PM permalink

So very much more...