Let's a play a little game. Was the following excerpted from a speech given by (A) a United States Senator in charge of The Senate Commerce Committee, which does semi-important things like manage bills that could control and regulate the internet, or (B) a psychotic homeless man standing at the corner of 36th and 7th Avenue?

Ready to play? Here's the quote:

There's one company now you can sign up and you can get a movie delivered to your house daily by delivery service. Okay. And currently it comes to your house, it gets put in the mail box when you get home and you change your order but you pay for that, right.

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. So you want to talk about the consumer? Let's talk about you and me. We use this internet to communicate and we aren't using it for commercial purposes. We aren't earning anything by going on that internet. Now I'm not saying you have to or you want to discrimnate against those people [...]

The regulatory approach is wrong. Your approach is regulatory in the sense that it says "No one can charge anyone for massively invading this world of the internet". No, I'm not finished. I want people to understand my position, I'm not going to take a lot of time. [?]

They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a 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 its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material. Now we have a separate Department of Defense internet now, did you know that?

The answer, sadly, is (A). Senator Ted Stevens delivered those lines as part of his rational for his vote on Net Neutrality. Yes, the man in charge of possible internet legislation thinks he gets his email the same way that the tellers at his bank get his weekly deposit when he's sitting in his car in lane #2.

You can listen for yourself here.

I wonder how he thinks television works?

[via Wired and Firedoglake]