Maybe the broadcasters are different because they don't own the airwaves the way I own my home page. Technically, these licenses expire in ten years. The Justices will vote. But as Lenin once remarked on the subject of tanks, quantity has a quality all its own. The vast abundance of digital broadband networks allows users to transcend all the old legal standards.
Bookstores fall somewhere in between.
But America Online transforms itself from one to the next as fast as you can click from email to a bulletin board to an online newspaper. The Justices will vote. THE alternative in any of these matters is not to vote. Somehow or other we are going to have to build on old legal principles of free speech, common carriage, private property, and so forth, or invent coherent new ones. There will be votes.