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> As previously noted, O'Rielly's speech objected to municipal broadband networks enforcing Acceptable Use Policies that target "amorphous categories like 'hateful' or 'threatening.'" Yet O'Rielly didn't object to Comcast and AT&T enforcing Acceptable Use Policies with those same terms.

It's right to point out this nonsense, but in his defense, there is a huge difference between a private company "censoring" speech, which it can do, and the government doing so.

This is of course muddied by the monopoly terms that comcast and the rest typically extract from municipalities. So if we are to take O'Rielly's comments seriously, he should be emphatic that such terms need to be removed from TOS when users have no other choice for an ISP.