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The internet is really a set of tubes? Well, that's what Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) claims. In a bizarre attempt to explain why he voted against Net Neutrality amendment he attempted to explain how the internet worked with statements like the following:

"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."

While this complete ignorance of how technology works in any sense may benefit companies that can throw lobbyists against a wall until people like this Senator become worried about how internet 'tubes' work, can government and tech-dependent small businesses really interact safely?

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