Culver City, CA filters its muni network
This is why tax dollars should not buy networks. The local government becomes a pressure point of lobbying and isolated public outcry over content issues.
This is not necessarily an argument that all networks should be owned and operated by corporations. Quite to the contrary: user financed networks are also an option, wherein I buy and own my last 100 or 1000 feet of network and connect to a neutral, competitive backbone.
But letting politicians decide what can and cannot travel over the network is a bad idea, and results in what you see being determined by the highest bidder.
