As we already discussed here, Sen. Ted Cruz took to Twitter this week and made a complete fool of himself by calling net neutrality "Obamacare for the Internet." His remarks were so idiotic, even conservatives went after him on his Facebook page.

This Sunday, long time net neutrality advocate Sen. Al Franken explained to CNN's Candy Crowley that Cruz didn't know what he was talking about: Al Franken Explains Why Ted Cruz Is 100 Percent Wrong On Net Neutrality:

Sen. Al Franken (D-MN), who won re-election by more than 10 points this month, took aim on Sunday at claims by his colleague, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), that preserving net neutrality would “stifle freedom, entrepreneurship and creativity online.”

On CNN’s State of the Union, he explained to Candy Crowley that net neutrality has been the way things have been since the beginning of the Internet and that creating a “fast lane” for certain content, whose providers pay extra for it, would be “a terrible, terrible, terrible idea.”

Franken noted that Google had created a video system years ago called “Google Video,” but three entrepreneurs in a pizzeria had devised a better video delivery system called “YouTube.” Because YouTube and Google Video had equal access to Internet bandwidth, he observed, the better product became more popular and Google ultimately paid $1.65 billion dollars to acquire YouTube.

Asked by Crowley about Cruz’s Washington Post op-ed in which the Texas Republican claimed “regulating the Internet threatens entrepreneurial freedom,” much like he believes the Affordable Care Act is “strangling our health-care” industry, Franken quickly and forcefully countered the argument.