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I always felt like he got unfairly mocked for that series of tubes comment.
by jklinger410 4y ago
I always felt like he got unfairly mocked for that series of tubes comment.
- mikeyouse 4y agoRead the quote directly above the comment you're replying to. There's giving someone the benefit of the doubt, then there's mocking one of the more corrupt Senators who claimed that an email was delayed by a few days due to what he was essentially calling network congestion, and using that as an argument against network neutrality -- while taking just truckloads of telecom lobbyist cash into his campaigns. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/washington/22stevens.html https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/washington/22stevens.html You could in theory make a sound argument about why the internet is just a series of tubes and make honest arguments about their capacity and the capital investment needed to keep up with the growth in data and increase in bandwidth requirements. Stevens did none of those things.