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A comment on Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler. Parent comment

Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by amanaplanacanal on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:18PM (#25709011)
ISPs should be common carriers. Unfortunately the current administration disagrees.
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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by throwaway201103 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:20PM (#25709052)
At what point should something like AWS be a "common carrier" though?
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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by lostcolony on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:59AM (#25711101)
When it's transporting goods (data) to the general public without discrimination, for the public good and necessity. Since that's the definition of a common carrier.

AWS isn't fundamentally transporting goods but providing a service (the transmission of data happens via a common carrier between you and it). It's not clear that AWS access is a public necessity. And it's never attempted to claim it does so without discrimination.

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