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

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

If Google is declared a common carrier, the average web user’s experience of search would, for the most part, remain the same.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2021

An express company is a common carrier and is bound by the same rules as other carriers except so far as such rules may be changed by definite contract.

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