Stoller:

Ok, now the substance. The ad makes a couple of claims. One, that web site operators don't pay for the internet. That is a lie. They pay massive sums of money for bandwidth, on the order of $10 billion last year alone. So does the public in tax subsidies for telecom companies, perhaps as high as $200 billion over the years (though it's hard to tell with all the mergers and weird accounting).

Word. You don't get to put shit online for free. You pay out the ass to get a fat pipe, which is why most people co-locate their servers with someone else who's already done that.