Senator Stevens: Extraordinarily Stupid Human, or Below Average Beast?

Anyone who has listened to Stevens' polemic during the Senate hearing on Net-neutrality can share in both the pain and laughter resulting from the realization that one of the most influential Senators when it comes to appropriations and other related matters is of an intellect that is so gravely substandard that it is difficult to know how precisely he manages to add tremendous amounts of pork to every piece of legislation. 

As one would suspect, Stevens has become the hired gun for the ISP's who want to deregulate the Web, eliminating the current condition of Net-neutrality.  According to Stevens, the current institution of Net-neutrality has already created a two-tiered stratified system, which would be effectively eliminated if Net-neutrality was abolished.  Here is the logic behind Stevens' conclusion:  The poor, subordinated ISP's, such as AT&T and Comcast, are currently sufferring under the weight of content providers, such as Google, as well as, consumers, such as you and I, who eat up bandwidth created by the invenstments of these poor ISP's without compensating the ISP's.  Despite the fact that these ISP's continue to invest in broadband expansions, and continue to make a good deal of money, the real culprits in this debate - free-content providers, such as Google, and end-users - are unfairly eating up resources to the point where the Internet can no longer function efficiently.  Stevens pointed out that members of his staff have sent him emails, which took 4 to 5 days to reach Stevens' inbox.  This backup, as it was reported by Stevens, is caused by the fact that content is "not delivered by trucks,' rather, "it comes through tubes," and, of course, "these tubes can get backed up."

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I am not sure what service provider Stevens uses.  However, I must conclude that Stevens' access to the Internet relies upon an architecture that is constructed out of strings tied to metal cans.  From listening to Stevens rambling during the Senate Hearing, one can only conclude that this guy does not even know what a computer is, let along the Internet.

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Russell Cole [send him email] is a contributing author to the Populist Party of America, and is the coordinator for the Populist Party's Midwest Alliance, the Midwest Populist Party.  Read more from Russell Cole at the Midwest Populist Party blog.