Media Views

Comcast is making a desperate attempt to spin its Internet blocking. Cut through all the jargon, and this much is clear: Comcast isn’t managing bandwidth hogs, it’s undercutting competition. Comcast could manage bandwidth without discrimination—like other Internet service providers do. What Comcast is really doing is specifically squashing new innovative Internet video services that compete with their own online and video-on-demand offerings—and threaten to topple its tightly controlled cable model. Comcast is looking at a future where consumers can access millions of channels online without the cable company’s permission, and doesn’t like it.