common carrier
noun
: a business or agency that is available to the public for transportation of persons, goods, or messages
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One benefit, according to the FCC official, is granting the agency greater oversight over internet outages if ISPs are classified as common carriers.
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Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 3 Apr. 2024
The problem with this argument is that social media platforms are not and never have been common carriers that simply transmit everything that is posted.
—Erwin Chemerinsky, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
Differences on the court emerged over how to think about the platforms — as akin to newspapers that have broad free-speech protections, or telephone companies, known as common carriers, that are susceptible to broader regulation.
—Mark Sherman, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024
Feld argues that without Chevron deference, cable broadband would have been classified as a telecommunications service and subject to common carrier rules all along.
—Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 9 Oct. 2023
The incident prompted fears that many had been exposed to rabies because raccoons are one of the most common carriers of the virus in Maine, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife said in a post published Thursday.
—Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 27 May 2023
Differences on the court Wednesday emerged over how to think about the platforms -- as akin to newspapers that have broad free-speech protections, or telephone companies, known as common carriers that are susceptible to broader regulation.
—Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 27 Feb. 2024
Federal appeals courts upheld previous FCC decisions on whether to apply common carrier rules to broadband, a fact that current agency officials point to in their plan to revive Obama-era regulation of ISPs under Title II.
—Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 9 Oct. 2023
More than 90% of rabies cases in the U.S. occur in wildlife, with raccoons, skunks, bats and foxes as the most common carriers, the CDC said.
—Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2024
Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 3 Apr. 2024
The problem with this argument is that social media platforms are not and never have been common carriers that simply transmit everything that is posted.
—Erwin Chemerinsky, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
Differences on the court emerged over how to think about the platforms — as akin to newspapers that have broad free-speech protections, or telephone companies, known as common carriers, that are susceptible to broader regulation.
—Mark Sherman, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024
Feld argues that without Chevron deference, cable broadband would have been classified as a telecommunications service and subject to common carrier rules all along.
—Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 9 Oct. 2023
The incident prompted fears that many had been exposed to rabies because raccoons are one of the most common carriers of the virus in Maine, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife said in a post published Thursday.
—Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 27 May 2023
Differences on the court Wednesday emerged over how to think about the platforms -- as akin to newspapers that have broad free-speech protections, or telephone companies, known as common carriers that are susceptible to broader regulation.
—Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 27 Feb. 2024
Federal appeals courts upheld previous FCC decisions on whether to apply common carrier rules to broadband, a fact that current agency officials point to in their plan to revive Obama-era regulation of ISPs under Title II.
—Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 9 Oct. 2023
More than 90% of rabies cases in the U.S. occur in wildlife, with raccoons, skunks, bats and foxes as the most common carriers, the CDC said.
—Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2024
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“Common carrier.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/common%20carrier. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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