I saw this video on YouTube and it’s not only hilarious, but right on with how our government wishes to control the internet:
The graphics that The Daily Show provided show exactly how many non-technical people (and probably some who think they’re technical) view the internet: a series of tubes. It does not help that people on both sides of the issue of net neutrality are coming up with such strange analogies, or bastardizing good analogies. Net neutrality is an important factor in maintaining the ease of use and the growth of the internet. A tiered global network would only make it easier to make an elitist internet, or at least make the existing internet even more separated.
btw, later today I should be posting about the happenings of the last few weeks (two trips to Ravinia, Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man’s Chest, Superman Returns and more.
Too Funny!
I love how the tubes thing has shown up on two websites I frequent that went down, in the last week. One’s message was “Arg! Our tubes are clogged!” (Flickr), the other’s was something about “tangled tubes” (LibraryThing).
Ah, the Internets. :p
Oh man, that was awesome.