Hands Off The Internet co-chairman Mike McCurry recently spoke at Ohio University where he introduced the Seven Deadly Sins of Net Neutrality. We here at the HOTI blog are going to spend a little time explaining each of the Sins and what they mean for you, the consumer. So without further ado, let’s get started with Deadly Sin number one:

“Net neutrality would finance the future of the Internet by shifting all of the costs onto consumers.”

Don’t believe us? Then just take the content providers’ word for it. For instance, according to a news report this January, Amazon’s spokesman on net neutrality argued that,

“In today’s Internet model, content is not pushed to the consumer by big media companies, but pulled into the network by paying consumers requesting the content. Those consumers and not the content providers, he argued, should pay the price.”

Or maybe you’d believe Google, who has recently asserted,

“By selecting and pulling in content and applications over their broadband connections, the end user is the cost causer. […] Any new charges should be imposed on those end users.”

From where we’re sitting, it would appear that the big content providers are interested more in using net neutrality to protect their bottom line than to protect the consumer.