Chalk one up for common sense.

At last week’s Internet Video Policy Symposium in DC, Cowen & Co.’s Arnie Berman offered a sharp response to the claim that Net Neutrality would put a “toll booth” on the Internet. According to press reports, Berman noted that video data on the web is like a bus that’s three lanes wide. So to handle all this traffic – and remember that last December, 140+ million U.S. Internet users watched more than 10 billion online videos – you’d need highways that are 30 lanes wide.

Earth to Google: Care to explain how Net Neutrality helps us fund all that?

Moving right along in our series, we present the next Deadly Sin of Net Neutrality:

Net neutrality sets America back in the goal to have every American connected to broadband by dramatically increasing the price of broadband across the board and hits those who can least afford it the hardest.

According to our good friends at Pew Research (okay, we don’t really know them, but we think they do good work), between 2005 and 2006, the high-speed adoption rate among African-Americans increased 120 percent and overall home broadband adoption increased 40 percent. Why did this occur, you may ask? And what do those numbers have to do with net neutrality? Well, according to Hands Off the Internet Co-chair Mike McCurry,

[C]ompetition forced companies to deploy services faster and make the cost more competitive. Net neutrality threatens this positive change. As competition is driving broadband prices down and adoption up, net neutrality promises to fundamentally change the way the Net is financed. This potentially shuts off our current progress and jeopardizes access for millions of families – particularly the poor and rural – who have just begun to share in America’s broadband promise.

You have to love those supporters of net neutrality – never looking out for the little guy.