One Cable Company to Rule Them All

Comcast’s bid to buy Disney raises a specter even scarier than the witch in Snow White: A Mickey Mouse Internet. Salon.com’s Farhad Manjoo in the ninth in a series on media consolidation…

“Will Disney’s content — its Web sites, its streaming movies and music and TV shows — get pushed through at quicker rates to Comcast’s broadband customers? Will other content, whether from a rival media giant or from your friends and family, get pushed through at all? And will the underlying architecture of the Internet subtly shift, over time, to accommodate the kinds of applications that media giants like Comcast want us to use, rather than the ones that come from the bubbling innovation of the Internet itself — like the Web, or e-mail, or peer-to-peer file trading?”