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The late Sen. Ted Stevens discussing net neutrality

...is allowing all of these, and these that support this, to support streaming sub- going on, on to, on to the Internet.

Now the Internet, you know, let's go back. Internet started with a concept of local to local connections across the country.

And, and you could for in Alaska, but you only had, you had to go through local connections to get there.

Industry wisely provided for streaming for, in effect, a new kind of long distance. And that's what we've got.

We've got a service that's immune to distance.

And, it's there for the consumer.

But, when we take, and really indicate that wants to use it, this system, for massive, massive commercial purposes.

There's one company now you can sign up and you can get a movie delivered to your house daily by subscription, by delivery service. Okay. And currently it comes to your house, it gets put in the mail box when you get home and in your monthly, you change your order, but you pay for that, right.

But this service is not going to go through the internet and what you do is you just go to a place on the internet and you order your movie and guess what you can order ten of them, and delivered to you and the delivery charge is free. Right?

Ten movies streaming across 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 and I got it yesterday. Why?

Because it got tangled up with all these things that going on the internet commercially.

And here we have this one situation where enormous entities want to use the Internet for their purposes to save money for what they're doing now. They use FedEx. They use the delivery services. They use the mail. They deliver in other ways.

But, 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're filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material...


Translation by Dr. Paul Mullins

...is allowing all of these to support streaming going on to the Internet.

Now the Internet, you know, started with a concept of local to local connections across the country.

And, and you could connect across the country, but you had to go through local connections to get there.

The industry wisely provided for streaming – in effect, a new kind of long distance. And that's what we've got.

We've got a service that's immune to distance.

And, it's there for the consumer.

But, when companies want to use it for massive, massive commercial purposes...

There's one company now that lets you subscribe, and you can get a movie delivered to your house daily by delivery service. Currently the movie gets put in the mail box and it comes to your house physically – when you get home you can change your order – but, you pay for that monthly, right.

But, now this service is going to go through the Internet. What you do is, you just go to a place on the Internet and you order your movie. And, guess what? You can order ten of them, and they are delivered to you on the Internet. And, the delivery charge is free. Right?

Ten movies streaming across the Internet... and what happens to your own personal Internet connection?

Just the other day, I got an email that was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, and I got it yesterday. Why?

Because it got tangled up with all these things that are going on the Internet commercially.

And here we have this one situation where enormous entities want to use the Internet for their purposes, to save money, instead of what they're doing now. They use FedEx. They use the delivery services. They use the mail. They deliver in other ways.

But, 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, you need to understand those tubes can be filled. And, if they're filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by those that put enormous amounts of material into that tube...


Better?

Even liberally translated, this still indicates some basic misunderstandings about the Internet (and Netflix).

Second attempt

But, they want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And, again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on.

Everything doesn't get delivered at the same time.

There are bandwidth limits.

And, you need to understand that there might not be enough bandwidth. And, if there isn't, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by those that use enormous amounts of bandwidth...