Ted on the Internet

It’s a Series of Tubes!

Stevens gave an 11-minute speech in opposition to the amendment, parts of which have become infamously familiar; “The Internet is not something you just dump something on. It’s not a truck. It’s a series of tubes. … 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.” [Bloggers Heap Derision On Stevens After Speech About Internet, Anchorage Daily News, 7/15/2006]

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