He isn’t that bad, at least he’s still more intelligent and educated then your president. And that one’s in charge of your army!

Hello everyone, this is my internet speaking…:)

Boy, this Stevens is an one heck of riot.

Jeff Y is right, it has nothing to do with age.

The internet is littered with spare capacity. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fiber. There are “tubes” sitting empty right now.

If the internet is slow, it isn’t because of spam and virii, or because of downloading movies. To be honest, “the internet” isn’t even slow. My ISP is a large cable provider. I get very fast downloads from all commercial sites, and my email arrives in seconds. If I want more speed I pay more, less speed, pay less. Hooray for free enterprise!

Perhaps Ted Stevens should contact his ISP and ask about the delay in getting his “Internets” (I’m assuming he meant email).

With regards to regulating legislation, this has been tried before with other industries with negative results. It would be most unfortunate to visit upon the internet the same failed policies which stagnated the economies of the 1970’s.

One can not force a major carrier to give “equal footing” to all network traffic when there are parties willing to pay more for priority service.

Virii and spam are a nuisance but the control and regulation required to properly defeat them would mean the death of the internet as we know it today.

I don’t want to tell my kids about a time when email used to be free.

Rob

Its not his age, its his lack of comprehension.  Imagine hearing your surgeon say something equally ignorant immediately prior to performing surgery, or the mechanic about to repair the brakes on your car.  How is it any different that someone with authority over whole segments of the economy can get away with such ignorance?

“Let the internet decide what to do.”

Eliminating free enterprise (such as his example using Netflix as the reason why he didn’t get his top priority e-mail) rather than going after the real criminals, such as the spammers and virus creators certainly sounds like…insane mental accounting on the part of Senator Stevens.

Kill off Netflix and gain control over the junk flowing through the tubes of the Internet?

The logistics of this equation just doesn’t add up…

After all, I don’t need protection from Netflix.  I need protection from spam, viruses, and the insanity still manifesting itself from this Congress believing it will take even more legislation to protect the innocent from the terrors of the Internet.

Urbanya Adams
One True Trixie

Politicians should be forced out of office at 65. it serves no purpose keeping feeble minded people in a position of power.

Yeah…..  get the old people out and replace them with young people who have 15-second attention spans and are only semi-literate?

It’s time to get all of these old people out of Congress and get in some young people who actually understand today’s world.