I think the issue is that AT&T is selling the ability to communicate. That said, I would have a reasonable expectation that they would not be able to limit the content of that communication except insofar as it were already limited (ie. If you use our phone to plot blowing up national monuments, we're going to cut you off.)
So yeah, kind of like Shauk said, but with the difference is that TFP is not functionally a public utility, nor has it ever been anything but Hal's house where he lets us write on the walls.
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