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Re:Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names by matt4077 on Monday February 05, 2018 @08:33PM (#16313811)
"Common Carrier" status is granted by the FCC to certain communication companies. It is not something acquired by (not) acting in a certain way. Example: You can't just run the mafia's books and "I'm a common-carrier accountant; I don't get involved in my customers' business".
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Re:Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names by dogma1138 on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @03:56AM (#16315138)
Common carrier is a legal concept which goes way beyond Title 2.

Public transport is a common carrier in the US oil and gas pipelines are also common carriers they don’t ask the FCC to classify them as such.

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