> Nor has the government-sponsored Post Office ever refused to carry indecent mails (think adult magazines and videos). I agree with your overall point -- I am

> Nor has the government-sponsored Post Office ever refused to carry indecent mails (think adult magazines and videos). I agree with your overall point -- I am aware of no attempt by municipal broadband providers to censor the internet they provide, and the First Amendment would seriously limit their ability to do so. This, however, is not right: >Nor has the government-sponsored Post Office ever refused to carry indecent mails (think adult magazines and videos). It has done this on very many occasions and, in fact, these efforts are precisely how we got much of the First Amendment obscenity doctrine we have today. Some examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Comstock http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Comstock http://openjurist.org/276/f2d/433/grove-press-inc-v-k-christenberry http://openjurist.org/276/f2d/433/grove-press-inc-v-k-christ... ("'Lady Chatterley's Lover'...has been detained as unmailable by the New York Postmaster and, after a hearing before the Judicial Officer of the Post Office Department and reference to the Postmaster General for final departmental decision, was held by the latter to be 'obscene and non-mailable pursuant to 18 U.S.Code 1461.'") http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1990/spring/esquire-v-walker-1.html http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1990/spring/es... Another good comparison might be broadcast (and, to a lesser degree, cable) television where, indeed, the government monopoly has generated pervasive content censorship. But this has been made possible by a peculiar First Amendment rule that really only applies to broadcast TV. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lion_Broadcasting_Co._v._Federal_Communications_Commission http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lion_Broadcasting_Co._v._Fe... I, for one, would rather take my chances with municipal broadband than be stuck with the truly awful TWC service that I am currently stuck with in NC.