The Internet, as explained by those who want to have control over it...

Hey, I may live in a state that elected a Senator who wasn't even a resident to represent them, but as far as not knowing what you're talking about, this transcript from Alaska's Senator Stevens, who wants to defunct net neutrality in favor of phone and cable companies, (http://internetweek.cmp.com/news/189601945), takes it! Check out his astute description of what the internet is...

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...

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.

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/07/02/sen_stevens_hilariou.html