It seems that Boston's free wi-fi network doesn't like BoingBoing. Well, that's not entirely true: as it turns out, the filter software Boston is using just got a little twitchy because of a single URL. Still, it raises some good questions about the extent to which municipal internet services can or should censor the content served over the network. If Lincoln were to go wireless (or wired via LES), these sorts of things will inevitably come up.
For the record, I'm in favor of zero content blockage. I wonder if the system would have to have a maximum upload/download limit per user, though? That seems reasonable.
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