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common carrier

NOUN
transport or telecommunications company
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“It would undercut safety and be the opposite of good business, the opposite of fulfilling the common carrier obligation, and the opposite of meeting the congressional commandment to serve the public.”

From Seattle Times Mar. 1, 2024

We cannot stress this enough: No, an Ohio judge did not declare Google a common carrier this week.

From Washington Post May 26, 2022

He then ran through an extended analogy in which Verizon listened to every phone call and cut off any pro-LGBT conversation, ignoring interjections that Twitter simply isn’t a common carrier and the comparison doesn’t apply.

From The Verge May 13, 2022

These corporations “are not engaged in indiscriminate, neutral transmission of any and all users’ speech” like a common carrier.

From Slate May 12, 2022

It is held that the railroad, being a common carrier, must not be put into a position in which it will be tempted to discriminate in favor of its own products.

From By the Christmas Fire by Samuel McChord Crothers



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