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Can't avoid taking it at face value - the city outsourced its public channel to a private operator which was enough to lead five Justices on another trip down t
by howard941 7y ago
Can't avoid taking it at face value - the city outsourced its public channel to a private operator which was enough to lead five Justices on another trip down the garden path to fencing limits on government to government actors in an orthodox sense. These 5-4 splits are scary and dangerous.
- gwright 7y agoI think this situation is somewhat different from your characterization. It isn't really a "public channel" that somehow belongs to the city/state. It is privately provided service that is just mandated as a side-effect of granting the private company a cable franchise. But I'm struggling to come up with a good analogy that involves private infrastructure that exists only due to government action with a 1st-amendment component.