your own personal internet?

Ted Stevens is ignorant. That's not to suggest that he's stupid--you don't generally serve as an officer in the Air Force, graduate from Harvard Law and serve as a Senator if you're stupid. Intelligent as he may be though, he is clearly ill-equipped to discuss regulation of the internet:

"But this service isn't going to go through the interent and what you do is you just go to a place on the internet and you order your movie and guess what you can order ten of them delivered to you and the delivery charge is free.

Ten of them streaming across 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 and I just got it yesterday. Why?

Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially."

He goes on to explain that the internet is "a series of tubes", and that

"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."

He doesn't understand the terminology (it's an "email", not an "internet"), he doesn't understand the technology (bandwidth saturation will *not* cause a multiple day delay in delivery of an email), and he is almost certainly regurgitating metaphors that have been fed to him by telco lobbyists ("tubes"???).

On the bright side, he's doing us all a favor by expressing his opinions. If he'd have just kept his mouth shut and voted, nobody would have noticed his ignorance. Not that I expect him to get booted out of office anytime soon--he's been around Washington for decades, and there aren't enough geeks in Alaska for this instance of foot-in-mouth disease to cost him an election.