NormanS
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join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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| reply to elios
Re: Ok and now the rest of the story...
said by elios  :and that wont happen unless ISP's lose there common carrier get out lawsuit free cards What give the ISPs this "common carrier" status? And what, exactly, does "common carrier" mean, anyway?
»www.davros.org/legal/carriers.html
»www.cybertelecom.org/notes/commo···rier.htm
I am trying to comprehend how common carrier status actually applies to ISPs. Oh, and there is this:
quote:
Refusal to Carry: Illegal Purpose
Common carriers have an obligation to provide service to any and all comers, except where service is clearly being used for illegal purposes.
And this...
quote:
The term “telecommunications carrier”—
(C) does not include—
(i) persons or entities insofar as they are engaged in providing information services;
It is also not clear to me that a service, or entity classified as a common carrier, can lose its common carrier status. Apparently, it either is a common carrier, by virtue of the services it provides, or it is not.
Perhaps the barracks lawyers should step off of their soap boxes for a moment, and do some research. Time for bed, so I will read more from these two, and other, links later.
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Norman
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