common carrier
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As professor Eugene Volokh, one of the originators of the common carrier analogy, explains, what separates entities such as newspapers from entities such as phone companies is whether they produce a “coherent speech product.”
From Slate • Feb. 23, 2024
Oil trains would link from the proposed new Uinta Basin line to the common carrier network throughout the country, including through Colorado.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2023
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
We'll go out of business as a common carrier at midnight, and it's the final straw that will break the camel's back.
From The Wreckers by Lynde, Francis