Indeed, Mr. Bloomberg is on record as supporting the federal government's do-not-call registry to block commercial telemarketers.
Among the terms was a requirement that libraries put their own technology in place to block commercial search services other than Google, he said.
To ensure that, he wants to form a special task force to block commercial traffic from nearby numbered streets and West End Avenue, where such traffic is forbidden.
But the decision, by Judge Edward W. Nottingham of the Federal District Court in Denver, made what may legal experts say is a good case that regulators had engaged in unconstitutional discrimination in allowing people to block commercial calls but not calls from charities, political parties, religious institutions and polling organizations.
Although President Bush signed the law authorizing the list yesterday, a federal judge last week ruled that it violates the First Amendment because it allows households to block commercial telemarketing calls but not calls from charities, political parties, religious groups or other nonprofit organizations.
The nearby Haida Nation recently won a court order to block commercial fishing on their territory.
In its complaint filed in June, Palantir asserted that the Army's solicitation process for bids to develop the next phase of the project was designed to block commercial firms such as Palantir from competing for the job.
In Norwich itself, a striking domed courthouse built in 1838 anchors the four-block commercial district.
(The last text is about the United States military's blocking commercial satellite imagery of Afghanistan during the war there).
He blocks commercial e-mail, diverts telemarketers to voice mail and even clears ads from Web pages.
This morning, he was due at an abandoned mercantile exchange in the town's one-block commercial strip.
