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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

That if you want your voice heard, Twitter is really the only game in town, and so it has become a common carrier.

From Slate Sep. 27, 2022

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

I suggested in a very rudimental way, in rather rudimental Spanish suited to him, that he was a common carrier, and as such under a duty to transport me.

From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by Blount, James H.



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