The Internet is a not a truck it is a bunch of tubes

Very scary those US Politicians as they try to create tiers of service, so that large players can hog all the bandwidth. Senator Stevens used the truck and pipes analogy. He wants to untie the tubes to ensure that all those commercials can be beamed into our computers faster. His secret plan and clever tricks involves the following.

They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet, and again, the Internet is not just something you 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. If they're filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line, it's going to be delayed by anyone who puts into that tube enormous amounts of material.

Seems like ordinary citizens are slowing the rush to judgement , with more than a million registered indignantmails sent to lobby for a more balanced approach. Some funny videos on the issue here. The Daily Show one is especially funny. Long may the available bandwidth be available to everyone, except spam.