"It's a series of tubes..."

If you care about the future of the Internet, you should read this excellent article on the whole 'net neutrality' debate by Canada's own Cory Doctorow.

If you want to see why politicians should not be the ones deciding on the future of the Internet, you only have to read this speech by Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), a small excerpt follows:

"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...

They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes.

And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are 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, enormous amounts of material."

Cheers to boingboing