Dan Gillmor on the Comcast-AOL deal:
AOL, once a passionate advocate for ``open access'' to high-speed cable and telephone data connections, was capitulating to the owners of the pipes....
This deal was a victory for a narrow, corporate vision of communications. It was a defeat for diversity in entertainment and information, and in the long run a blow to the open architecture of the Internet.
What Dan sees is precisely right; it's what I somewhat more obliquely referred to the other day as the unfortunate rise of Cable Mind. See also Doc, Kevin Werbach and, with a different view, Mark Canter. For more on Cable Mind, Gaspar and dive into mark have this, and there's this.
