The Streaming War Nobody Wins

16 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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TJ Walker contrasts two dominant media conglomerates—Disney and Alphabet (Google/YouTube)—framing Alphabet as the far larger power and Disney as the smaller rival. He expresses concern about concentrated platform power and argues society needs politicians willing to challenge these technology giants.

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Disney is a huge, gigantic media conglomerate that's been around forever. And Alphabet, owner of Google, owner of YouTube, is even bigger media company. So it's the giant versus the super, super, super giant. It's hard to know who to root for or root against when it feels more natural to root against both of them. I do think that as much as Disney's done a lot of interesting things in the past, shall we say, they're the real David here, they're the small time player, and we as a society have to somehow vote for politicians who are willing to stand up to these huge giant technology platforms because they are getting so powerful and there's so few of them that they can really do whatever they want.