Ted Stevens: Down The Tubes?

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Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator in Alaska, who became an internet legend by calling the internet a “series of tubes”, has been indicted on seven counts related to falsely reporting hundreds of thousands of dollars in services he received from a company that helped renovate his home.

Becoming famous for obviously over-simplifying what the internet is in trying to make his case for Net Neutrality, I am certain people all across the tubes today are rejoicing this moment.
Here is a partial quote and to read more on the issue, visit the Wikipedia page: “Series of Tubes” 

Ten movies streaming across that, 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, I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.

I Got It Yesterday – Sen. Ted Stevens (AUDIO)

[…] They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big 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 it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

Series Of Tubes – Sen. Ted Stevens (AUDIO)

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