Some Comcast users on the East Coast are learning what the world is like without Net Neutrality, as attempts to connect to Google and Gmail have failed throughout the day. Ted Stevens (Republican Senator/idiot from Alaska, for those of you not paying attention) fought against Net Neutrality on the Senate floor, even attempting to explain how the internet works to Senators who are 40 years his junior. His heart nearly exploded during the tirade, which included the classic line, “it’s not a truck, it’s a series of tubes.”

Net Neutrality prevented internet providers from charging premiums for bandwidth used by high-traffic websites. Imagine a fueling station charging truck drivers an extra $.50 per gallon because they use a lot of fuel. There is no reason why the internet providers need to charge this extra amount. If they excessive bandwidth (which all websites are buying at the market rate) is costing them lots of money, raise the price! Essentially, Ted Stevens’ anti-Net Neutrality bill allows cable companies to target any website, block them from their service, and then extort money from the website before unblocking them.

Ted Stevens, who like a starfish can split into many pieces and fit into the pockets of dozens of corporate executives, has no problem with the legal extortion of some punk website as long as it benefits his buddies at the cable company.

It’s unclear at this time if the problems with Comcast and Google (and also the Firefox browser, from what I’ve heard) are a deliberate attempt by Comcast to make some money off the Internet giant or if it’s just a problem with their servers. Either way, it’s a look at what the future of the Internet may be like, thanks in part to Ted Stevens.

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Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska has become quite a popular guy in the past couple of years. First, he had a tantrum when fellow senators tried to block his $500 million pork project as part of a federal transporation bill. The money would have built a bridge named after Stevens. The bridge connected mainland Alaska to an island populated by a few dozen people.

Most recently, Ted Stevens attempted to explain how the internet works to the rest of the Senate. The speech was part of his effort to allow telecom companies to create special fees for websites that want their service to remain the same. Anyone who didn’t pay would be put on a lower “tier” of the internet, meaning the telecoms would use their machines to intentionally make those sites run slower.

Senator Stevens, showing his devine wisdom, explained that the internet is not a dump truck, it’s a bunch of tubes. He also claimed that the internet tubes were getting so clogged that an email he sent took over a day to be delivered. He claimed that the email was delayed by one of these clogs.

This blog will focus on many more topics than just the Ted Stevens Bridge or Net Neutrality. The fact is, Ted Stevens does something just about every day that will outrage most Americans. He’ll also get re-elected as many times as he wants, because Alaskans have very few taxes and receive huge benefits from the oil companies, even if they don’t work for them. Basically, the oil companies pay off Alaskans so they don’t make a fuss about the environmental damage… and to keep their friend Ted Stevens in power.

Coming Soon… The Ted Stevens video collection