Actually, very different. Public access was very limited in bandwidth: one simply didn't have thousands of people posting content. As a result, public access w

Actually, very different. Public access was very limited in bandwidth: one simply didn't have thousands of people posting content. As a result, public access was heavily curated and subject to the same broadcast restrictions as traditional television. Even allowing that, public access isn't much of a thing anymore. In modern mainstream television stations, there is absolutely no user-generated content.