"I'd be the last person to cancel something on the basis of content.
The notion that by limiting Internet access on the basis of content a library could violate users' free speech rights was "unsettling," the government's brief says.
As a broader principle, the state tax tribunal's position amounts to discrimination on the basis of content and raises a serious First Amendment issue.
To reconcile the cases, the justices may have to explore the sometimes fine line that separates distinctions on the basis of content from those made on the basis of viewpoint.
A federal lawsuit filed in behalf of the club and a student organizer, Anthony Colin, accused the district of violating the Equal Access Act, a federal law prohibiting schools from selectively denying noncurricular clubs on the basis of content.
Supporters of the proposal on the Icann board argued that the agency's role was to serve as a technical arbiter about the feasibility of new domain names, not to discriminate on the basis of content.
Now, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has ruled in favour of the critics, saying in a statement: "No service provider shall offer or charge discriminatory tariffs for data services on the basis of content".
But even now, just on the basis of content, the Met's site is so encyclopedic and welcoming that it ranks among the best I have seen for any major museum.
TRAI has said that operators cannot "charge discriminatory tariffs on the basis of content", or sign contracts with anyone that result in such discriminatory data tariffs with immediate effect, and will impose fines of 50,000 rupees a day ($735) if the regulations are broken.
The board, which in December denied the Gay-Straight Alliance's application to meet at school, is being sued by club organizers under the Equal Access Act, a federal law enacted in 1984 that prohibits schools from selectively denying noncurricular clubs on the basis of content.
