Series of Tubes

Senator Ted Stevens likens the Internet to a series of tubes in a senate subcommittee meeting on Net neutrality.

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[qsxxsq2]

web 1.0 = an intelligent series of tubes free of dumbasses

web 2.0 = a fucking truck dumbasses dump shit on.

[doogrisa]

o(^.^)o



[val28l]

what a fucking idiot this guy is. and the sad thing is, people like him want to regulate the internet...........

[ShadowriverUB]

@NeonGen2000 Internet can be full, why do you think you get inconsistent connection speed? because you not only one using the pipes on your way and your data is queued with others or some pipe in way is wide enough like your pipe in home ;] Ofcorse it's no so dramatic as he say in practice but it has sense, i hear his full speech and i hear more incorrect things then that. You actually can't find better analogy for network cable then a tube/pipe, it carry things and it has bandwidth.

[NeonGen2000]

@NeonGen2000 (cont) He's either clearly ignorant of the way internet is sold to people/companies (which is dangerous in politics, but sadly a lot of these people are ignorant old timers) or he's trying to spin it. Because taxing people for bandwidth would be the equivalent having someone pay toll on a public road when they already pay road taxes.

[NeonGen2000]

@ShadowriverUB It's not a correct analogy. He makes it seem like the internet can get full. Which paves the way for politics to tax people for the amount of bandwidth they use. He makes it seem like ISP's over sell their capacity. When in reality you paying your internet bill provides ISP's with money to expand their network. So if you want to use the tubes analogy, imagine every person paying their ISP adding another tube to the network.

[snakrause]

Well, I'm not actually sure of the context this was in, but based on what I got out of this video, this seems to me like he's giving a fair metaphor about the internet and bandwidth restrictions. People in my hometown don't understand that we have a 300meg limit for my region, and max speeds are capped at 3meg. Many don't realize getting a better/newer pc, or purchasing/downloading some software will NOT allow faster internet, or acheive their max speed if the full bandwidth has already been met

[xbeemc]

He's not really 'wrong'. While imprecise, the explanation does roughly describe the situation: A series of connected conduits with limited capacity, which can become overloaded.

Stevens famously had no 'indoor voice'. If he had just said it more calmly, and prefaced his statement with: "While this is not a precise explanation, you can imagine the internet can be like sending information through a series of tubes....(etc)" - - then people wouldn't have mocked him about it.

[ShadowriverUB]

@NeonGen2000 Yea, watched that, still people laugh mostly at moment when he actually makes sense ^^

[NeonGen2000]

@ShadowriverUB /watch?v=f99PcP0aFNE

[ttttttttttopaz]

....what?

[ShadowriverUB]

thru somebody could tell him how to describe this in cool way ;]