Senator Ted Stevens indicted
I’m not quite sure if this counts as schadenfreude or not, but the famously technologically challenged Senator Ted Stevens has been indicted on seven counts of making false statements on financial disclosure forms. Stevens publicly displayed his ignorance of the operation of the internet in June 26, 2006 comments advocating against net neutrality.
Ten movies streaming across that, 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, I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. 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 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 are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
The Washington Post is reporting that Stevens’ indictment concerns the failure to report more than a quarter million dollars in goods and services he received from Alaska oil firm Veco and two other people. Video after the fold.
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