[This is an excerpt from my 1995 Yale Law Journal article " Cheap Speech and What It Will Do ," written for a symposium called "Emerging Media Technology and the First Amendment.) Thirty years later, I thought I'd serialize the piece here, to see what I may have gotten right—and what I got wrong. Here is the final section.]

[S]ome of the other [First Amendment] assumptions that the new technologies will upset may lead to more trouble. Missouri Knights of the KKK v. Kansas City tells a cautionary tale. In exchange for giving a franchise to a cable company, Kansas City demanded that the company provide a public-access channel. Everything went well until the Ku Klux Klan decided to put on its own show, which offended the city government so much that it authorized the cable system to shut the

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