Most of us bore witness this week to a rickety, nonsensical politician explaining to Congress how the InterWeb is a series of "tubes." Unfortunately, dear Senator Stevens is a key decision maker on Net neutrality, and has what one blogger called a "Flintstonian" understanding of the Internet.

The silliness escalated when a MySpacer let us listen to the Stevens ramblings again, this time in B minor with a backbeat. But media king Rupert Murdoch interrupted our uncomfortable laughter as the musical MySpacer's page was cancelled. Poof.

Enter some inquiry from a Web news reporter as to why the political parody-making MySpacer found himself now without a space, and the News Corp. flacks responded: The deletion was an inadvertent "error." Controlling information is a formidable goal, afterall, but even massive media conglomerates aren't always up to the task. The missing MySpace account was quickly reinstated. Unpoof.

Blog community response:

"You knew that Rupert Murdoch couldn't keep his reality-altering efforts off of MySpace...In this case, 'error' equals 'damage control.'"
--Daily Kos

"And that, my friends, is why I won't touch MySpace with a 10-foot pole. No matter how convenient it might be to have a MySpace (account), I simply am not going to support something that is owned by the people who own Fox News. Of course, since I buy gas, I suppose that is unavoidable."
--Chris Fairfield's Life...From Blammo!

"Frankly, though, it boggles the mind to think that of all the material posted on MySpace, one complaint against one semi-obscure song, is enough to get tossed off the site. It had to be more than a simple complaint filed by the complaint form on the site, because MySpace 'will not honor delete requests' sent with the form...Raff's song apparently hit the wrong notes with someone."
--Public Knowledge

"Why Senator Steven's email took so long?I asked the Senator's office to send me a copy of the internet via Fed-Ex (to avoid internet rush hour). After signing for it this morning, I unwrapped it and set out to test it forensically to make sure the senator was telling the truth...(I used a command line tool called Bioforensic Unfragmenting Logistical Level Systemic Hopping Information Tracerouter, which is open-source.) Turns out he was right. After his staffers sent the internet letter and the letter shattered into pieces by the internal sledgehammer encased in the congressional mail server, the pieces were slingshotted into the internet's pipe. To visualize this, think of how a potato gun works and then simply reverse the process in your head."
--27B Stroke 6

Just to test this, I delivered 1/10 of myself over the Internet. (the equivalent of one ninja.) And I found our dear senator to be absolutely correct. Not even with my ninja speed and reflexes could I avoid the huge rush of people ordering the Internet, as well as the all the fed-ex trucks delivering the Internet through all those small tubes. It took me almost 3.48 seconds faster then It should have, which also means that I stole 3.48 seconds away from our dear department of defense. I hope that a Mexican didn't get in while I was wasting all that dear time.

Wha'ts wrong with mexicans? They help the economy and hurt it at the same time. Without them, who knows, rich people would have to work for a change! GASP! And we sure as hell wouldn't want rich people getting off their lazy asses to show some kindness to those less fortunate now would we? AS Stephen Colbert would say, the poor.

Well, that's all well and good. But what's your position on net neutrality?

Indeed

What is net neutrality exactly?

just wiki it.
I'm sure wiki could give you a far better answer then I.

Wiki is Better than Ninjas!!! :P

Everything is better then Ninja's except for Ninjas. . .well. . .Ninjas can pwn Barney. . .maybe. . .but that's it.

And you wonder why I gave you all those negs.

For it's a rule that you can't abuse the negs, you need good reasons as to why you're giving the negs. Course you probably didn't read the rules they set up for the rating system. And your reasons sure as hell aren't good enough.

I read about net neutrality, and I'm slightly confuzzled, probably becuase I myself am not that big when it comes to electronics.

Yeah, and your's are?
Stop being so serious, it's totally just a rating.

And this is a big issue all over the web right now.

I'm sorry, did you say stop being serious? Look who talk's your serious in almost every god damn thing you're saying. Anyway, who was the one that brought up the rating thing? You. Who was the one pushing me? You. I simply pointed out the facts, I was never "whining" about them as you so simply put it. If you're going to berate someone why not try to understand what they say before you decide to say something. The only reason you even got a neg. rating at first was just a joke, but then you seem to just push it. It's also against the rules to constanly give a neg. for the same thing. . .I think. It seems to me you're one the who was being "serious".

Big issue eh? Never knew about it until just now.

I'm hardly ever serious.
Believe me.

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Look back at how I brought up the rating thing, and then calm down.

Just forget the rating thing, as I have said at least twice before now. I wasn't whining, I'm just simply pointing out a bug in the system, that is all.

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No offense.

Just drop it already, the topic was just about pointing out that the ratings system seemed to have gone haywire, and nothing more.