• iowagneiss@midwest.social
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    1 month ago

    They’ll ultimately just have to cut off the US Internet from the rest of the world, right? As long as we can access other countries with more freedom, we can enjoy that level of freedom on the Internet. Or am I not understanding how the Internet works (entirely possible)?

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      1 month ago

      If it makes you feel any better, you can rest assured that Capitol Hill doesn’t know how the Internet works either.

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        1 month ago

        " 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." - Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens

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          To be fair, at this late date, the tubes analogy isn’t that bad. I forget what point he was trying to make though.