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What are the other ramifications of being classified as a common carrier?
by ilyanep 13y ago
What are the other ramifications of being classified as a common carrier?
- Steko 13y agoCongress specifically forbade the FCC from applying common carrier regulation to what the Telecommunications Act of 1996 calls "information services."
- hgsigala 13y agoBut what mjmahone17 is saying is that the FCC should label broadband providers (in my view: both wired and wireless) as common carriers which would undo the "information services" label put on them in 2002 (http://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Cable/News_Releases/2002/nrcb0201.html http://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Cable/News_Releases/2002/n...)
- dasil003 13y agoIt's terrifying enough to think of congress today deciding the fate of the internet, much less the congress of 1996.
- SG- 13y agoWell, at least the Internet in the US. Other countries have their own laws and regulations.
- rayiner 13y agoThe Congress of 1996 did more or less what technologists wanted at the time: told the FCC to not regulate the internet.
- BrainInAJar 13y agoI'm excited to see what kind of crazy side-effects the stuff we the technologists of today are demanding (like net-neutrality) have
- stox 13y agoAny good idea you have today can be made into a bad idea later. See Alfred Nobel.
- jstelly 13y agoNo liability for how third parties using your network (e.g. for libel or violating copyrights). There may be other regulations that limit or eliminate this liability though.
- eck 13y agoSo, right now, if someone detonates a bomb with a cell phone, Verizon/AT&T is basically a co-conspirator? You'd think they'd want to be a common carrier, at least if it weren't for the US's general lack of enthusiasm for holding corporations responsible for anything.
- jasomill 13y agoUm, no. That common carriers aren't liable for something doesn't imply non-common carriers are liable. Moreover, IANAL, but I can't imagine common carriers are exempt from prosecution for criminal conspiracy.
- rayiner 13y agoAn extremely vast, outdated, and oppressive regulatory regime applicable to common carriers.