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Yesterday, Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens, the most senior Republican in the Senate, was indicted on seven counts of lying to Federal investigators. Stevens was an outspoken member of Congress on Net Neutrality, and in solidarity with him, we've reprinted the crux of his famed internet description here (read the entire thing at HuffPo or check out the audio):

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 discriminate 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.
Material like the below, of course, as one of the most awesome memes on said tubes took flight:
Should Stevens end up behind bars, we wish him the best of luck and thank him for all the good times. If you'd like to reflect a bit more on his moving words, this is the place to do it. Stay strong out there, everyone.