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What Comcast is doing is the quintessential practice, considered obvious in a less corporatism-addled world, that would necessarily result from any one voice in the media growing so dominant that it felt comfortable silencing its critics with ham-handed impunity. It is probable that under the next round of FCC "reform," Blue America's ad could have been relegated to the alternative press entirely, and thereby, utterly vanish down the Memory Hole without a trace. I have no doubt that Comcast is measuring the windows in the smaller media outlets with the temerity to run such un-American blasphemy for the heavy drapes they plan to draw against all such offending speech in the salivated-over "future."
As Kovie points out, and as the cockeyed optimist I stubbornly continue to be, I think that they have overplayed their hand and risk their dreams of one corporation, under God, with this petulant, stupid, and overconfident display of Bushian Deciderism. Don't they read the polls? Don't they know how fed up, disgusted, and downright angry the public is from so many years of this crap? And have they any idea that their own customers probably think less of them, due to their poor, overpriced service and "my way or the highway" attitude than even the equally annoyed civil libertarians in this country?
Bring it on, Comcast.
No high-priced lawyer can pull your chestnuts out of this fire.
I will happily contribute to a new ad campaign highlighting this... Especially large (Clear Channel?) billboards along their executives' routes home to their no doubt gated communities.
