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At what point should something like AWS be a "common carrier" though?
by throwaway201103 6y ago
At what point should something like AWS be a "common carrier" though?
- lostcolony 6y agoWhen 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.