He's making a list. He's checking it twice. He'd going to find out who's naughty and nice.

It's the competition that makes it work now that we've split the phone company up into eight seven five two parts that compete aggressively with each other. Do I hear a tender offer in the works?:

Buried deep within the dense, legalistic agreements two of the country's largest telecommunications carriers force subscribers to accept are provisions that could allow the companies to cut access to subscribers who criticize them online.

Los Angeles Times business columnist David Lazarus uncovered the little-noticed clauses in AT&T and Verizon's service contracts.

In a Wednesday column, Lazarus writes that the companies say they can terminate Internet access "for any behavior that AT&T or Verizon believes might harm its 'name or reputation,' or even the reputation of its business partners."

I have everything on cable at this point. So am I safe? I don't have time to page through my contract to find out.