AT&T, Apple, and The Neo Liberal University

How do the interests of AT&T and Apple support or conflict with the mission statements of Land Grant Universities?

An example from Marc Gunther's blog:
AT&T: Not Cool

I didn't hear about AT&T's censorship of the rock band Pearl Jam until a friend in the social investing world told me about it. If you were not paying attention to the Lollapalooza music festival staged recently in Chicago, you probably didn't hear about it either. But a whole lot of people have heard about it, and that's a problem for AT&T.