Had that ruling stood, it would have allowed all companies that offer common carrier services to avoid punishment from the FTC even when offering non-common carrier services.
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Common Carrier is aware that it does not have an answer.
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That decision says that if a company provides a common carrier service, the FTC cannot enforce its laws against any of its services, even if they are non-common carrier services like video or online news.
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Title II of the Act describes the responsibilities of a common carrier.
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We are happy to carry the coal, but we are a common carrier.
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"Imposing common-carrier regulations on Internet service providers violates the First Amendment," he writes.
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Johnson told Re/code that Amazon registered as a Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier.
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Moreover, the vast majority of blending occurs at common carrier third party pipeline terminals.
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Proof that the trip was delayed - in the form of a common carrier statement.
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That has caused some to fret that even if broadband service lost the "common carrier" status, the FTC couldn't regulate privacy at internet providers because the companies will still carry the broader status of "common carrier" thanks to other services they offer.
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It's not modern for the FCC to rely on a common-carrier, regulatory-paradigm designed in the 22019's for monopoly railroad networks, to regulate 21st century Internet access, when the U.S. government long ago sunsetted all other industries' common carrier regulation, i.e.
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Traditionally, a common carrier must exercise the "highest practical degree of care" in transporting humans.
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Republican lawmakers reversed those rules, but without the common carrier classification, they could never have existed.
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Now, it's regulated and means that your earnings, you know, can only-- you're a common carrier.
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We decline to yet again flick the on-off switch of common-carrier regulation under these circumstances.
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Phone companies, for instance, as a common carrier, are lawfully required to treat all calls the same.
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You do, however, need to pay your common carrier fare with your card in order to qualify.
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You must file a claim with the common carrier before you can submit a claim with Chase.
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The court affirmed the FCC's authority to decide whether broadband should be considered a common carrier service.
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" Mr. Walden asked, listing industries like advertising, publishing and even telecom, or "common carrier in the information age.
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It also introduces some important terms that you've probably seen around: Title I, Title II and common carrier.
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It does not require a common carrier to be a policeman or to know what's in every package.
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Your itineraryA statement from the airline (or other common carrier) saying why your flight was delayed or canceled.
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It classified broadband as a common carrier service akin to phones, which are subject to strong government oversight.
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Let's examine why: The common carrier exemption In a straightforward 2015 case brought by the FTC against AT&T for promising "unlimited" mobile data plans and secretly capping and throttling them, the 9th Circuit surprisingly ruled that basically any service, even non-telephonic, offered by a common carrier was covered by the exemption.
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The investigation could also consider whether the railways violated their common carrier obligations to haul a full range of freight.
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"It does not require a common carrier to be a policeman or to know what's in every package," he said.
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Opponents say the changes will squeeze access and limit competition on the common-carrier system obligated to accommodate all shippers.
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The FTC, which has been prohibited from working on common-carrier issues in telecommunications, would have to solve the puzzle.
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To tap dance around that lawsuit, AT&T lawyers leaned heavily on the common carrier exemption in section 5 of the FTC Act—claiming that its common carrier status (ironically the same classification it has fought tooth and nail against on the net neutrality front) exempted it from being held accountable by the FTC.
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"It does not require a common carrier to be a policeman or to know what's in every package," he told Fox.
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Congress has never enacted net neutrality legislation or clearly authorized the FCC to impose common-carrier obligations on Internet service providers.
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The most common carrier is a rodent of the Mastomys species, 4 to 7 inches long and with 24 mammary glands.
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James N. Kienitz Wilkins's experimental documentary Common Carrier finds artists balancing creative pursuits and the demands of life in New York City.
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You'll need a statement from your common carrier stating the reason for the delay — again, not the most convenient thing to obtain.
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The rules approved in 2015 under the Obama administration reclassified broadband access as a "common carrier" under Title II of the Telecommunications Act.
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AT&T had argued that, because some of its business is considered a "common carrier," the FTC didn't have authority to take action.
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They argued the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) lacked the congressional authority to impose public-utility, common-carrier obligations on broadband internet access service.
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The court likened the regulation of Internet service providers (ISPs) under net neutrality to the common carrier rules under which phone companies operate.
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The conclusion is that companies like AT&T are common carriers when they are offering common carrier services, and aren't when they aren't.
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" Mr. Walden asked, listing industries like advertising, publishing and even telecommunications, asking whether the company was a "common carrier in the information age.
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"We decline to yet again flick the on-off switch of common-carrier regulation under these circumstances," the judges wrote in their decision.
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The FCC's website crashed, Oliver's segment brought unprecedented attention to the issue, and the commission decided to reclassify internet service as a common carrier.
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Instead, they say that Congress should pass a bill that would enshrine net neutrality into law without requiring common carrier status for broadband providers.
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In 2015, the FCC reclassified broadband service as a "common carrier" — meaning that internet service was regulated by that agency, rather than the FTC.
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Broadband companies praised Pai's original proposal, which would remove the "common carrier" classification from internet providers and end the FCC's authority to regulate them.
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The net neutrality safeguards passed by the FCC in 2015 were the latest in a history of "common carrier" industry regulations and consumer protections.
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Even if Google would prevail in an antitrust case, banning Gab strengthens the policy argument for utility or common carrier regulation of online platforms.
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It eliminates the old, common carrier model that places a drag on Internet growth, while adopting a nimbler mechanism for policing potentially harmful behavior.
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The disjuncture between the creative life and the demands of conventional responsibilities is something Common Carrier tries to figure out over its 78 minutes.
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The crux of AT&T's argument hinged on the fact that the FTC doesn't have authority from Congress to provide oversight over common carrier services.
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This was much to the consternation of the rest of the industry, which considered Genachowski's rules preferable to the hardcore alternative of common-carrier regulation.
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The effect was to shift AT&T from being under the FTC's authority to the FCC's, which is the designated agency for common carrier telecoms.
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It's what makes platforms unique, Gillespie argues — different both from publishers who create content and from common-carrier internet service providers who simply transmit it.
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To qualify for American Express trip delay coverage, you need to pay for your round-trip travel expenses with a common carrier with your credit card.
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To be eligible for this coverage, you have to pay for travel with a common carrier (airfare, cruise fare, etc.) with your American Express credit card.
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He wants to undo the common carrier identification and ask internet providers to simply commit not to break net neutrality rules within their own terms of service.
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These agitators want to preserve common-carrier classification under Title II for one and only one reason: They want the Internet to be a highly regulated utility.
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Support for the principle spurred, among other F.C.C. actions, the classification of broadband as a common carrier service like telephones, which are subject to strong government oversight.
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The lawmakers say their next target is the F.C.C.'s declaration in 2015 that broadband should be treated like a common carrier service, such as the phone.
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But Judges David Tatel and Sri Srinivasan denied all challenges to the new rules, including claims that the FCC could not reclassify mobile broadband as a common carrier.
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Previously, the FTC was only unable to regulate the "common carrier" activities, like offering voice service, but could still police other unrelated services offered by the same companies.
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This snowballing definition now has many net neutrality proponents seeing net neutrality as the same as 1934 monopoly telephone utility law which regulated telecommunications as a common carrier.
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In 2628, the FCC made the controversial decision to reclassify broadband Internet access as a "common carrier" telecommunications service under Title II of the Communications Act of 28500.
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In Tennessee, school buses -- in fact, school systems in general -- do not have the same duty of care as a common carrier, according to that state's Supreme Court.
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Fixing this increasingly unworkable system will require Congress to act, gradually shutting down the TSA while authorizing CBP officers to routinely supervise security at all common carrier checkpoints.
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Enbridge is turning its Mainline system from a common carrier in which shippers submit monthly bids for capacity to one that is mostly contracted for up to two decades.
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The appeals court upheld the F.C.C.'s decision to no longer regulate high-speed internet delivery as if it were a utility, or a "common carrier," like phone service.
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A Common Carrier is any land, water, or air conveyance that operates under a valid license to transport passengers for hire and requires purchasing a ticket before travel begins.
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"Regulation of broadband internet has been the subject of protracted litigation, with broadband providers subjected to and then released from common-carrier regulation over the previous decade," the court wrote.
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"Regulation of broadband internet has been the subject of protracted litigation, with broadband providers subjected to and then released from common carrier regulation over the previous decade," the opinion said.
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To give users an easy way to voice their displeasure of Pai's plan to repeal the classification of the internet as a common carrier, he's taken out the domain name gofccyourself.
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By classifying broadband service as a "common carrier" under Title II, the FCC can require much more of them—like, for example, that they have to provide service to everyone equally.
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If you make a mistake ... they are empowered under their regulations — not, we think, based on congressional law, but on their own regulation — to fine us or any other common carrier.
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Its new status as a freight forwarder, or "non-vessel operating common carrier," gives Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, a foothold in the $350 billion a year ocean freight business.
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FCC rules passed under the last regime relied on the common carrier designation forcing broadband providers to receive consent from users to track their web habits and sell them to advertisers.
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Tatel wrote the opinion in 2014 striking down the last set of rules, arguing that the FCC treated internet service as a common carrier but did not classify it as such.
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Raccoons, or as they've come to be known on the Internet over the past year, "trash pandas," are, despite the whole "common carrier of rabies" thing, rather pleasant creatures, it looks like.
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Amazon MaritimeHolds a Federal Maritime Commission license to operate as a non-vessel-operating common carrier (NVOCC), which enables the company to manage its own shipments from China into the United States.
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Notwithstanding, an en banc panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled against AT&T anyway, finding that its "non-common carrier activity" remained subject to FTC oversight.
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Indeed, these deals will get better and more innovative once the FCC adopts Chairman Pai's plan to stop regulating internet service providers (ISPs) as if they were common carrier rotary telephone companies.
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Last year, the agency reclassified Internet service as common carrier so it could have more authority to ensure Internet service providers treat all traffic equally and don't prioritize certain traffic over others.
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"FedEx is a common carrier under Federal law and therefore does not and will not deny service or discriminate against any legal entity regardless of their policy positions or political views," it continued.
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Enbridge plans to turn the Mainline, North America's largest oil-shipping network, from a common carrier system that is open to all shippers, to one that is mostly contracted for up to two decades.
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Canadian pipeline company Enbridge plans to turn the Mainline system from a common carrier system in which shippers submit monthly bids for capacity, to one that is mostly contracted for up to two decades.
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Baggage Insurance PlanWhen you purchase a ticket on an airline or other common carrier with your Bonvoy Brilliant card, you'll be covered for eligible lost, damaged, or stolen baggage up to $3,000 per trip.
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The industry is in that sense not a "normal" industry, but rather what was once called a common carrier or a public utility: a critical infrastructure on which the rest of the economy relies.
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I recommend paying for travel with a credit card if possible — a luxury not available to all, I realize — as there is frequently common carrier coverage that will reimburse you should something go wrong.
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"FedEx is a common carrier under Federal law and therefore does not and will not deny service or discriminate against any legal entity regardless of their policy positions or political views," the statement said.
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More than two years ago, the commission voted to reclassify broadband internet access as a "common carrier" under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, designating the internet a utility no different from water or electricity.
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"FedEx is a common carrier under Federal law and therefore does not and will not deny service or discriminate against any legal entity regardless of their policy positions or political views," the company's statement continued.
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Sure, you can qualify for perks like trip cancellation/interruption insurance and lost baggage insurance with a premium travel credit card, but you have to pay your common carrier fare with your card to qualify.
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She wishes to make it plain that under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, from which the FCC derives much authority, "information services" are explicitly excluded from common carrier regulation like the 2015 net neutrality rules.
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Any trip is covered, as long as you paid for it with the card, and it's on a common carrier, or public form of transportation like a commercial flight, train, bus, cruise ship, ferry, etc.
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That's a slight improvement on the regulatory environment in the wake of the FCC's decision to abandon Title II common carrier regulations, the lack of which now allows ISPs to get away with pretty much anything.
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As such, the FCC's decision is a direct affront to the D.C. Circuit's holding in Verizon, which clearly holds that the commission cannot regulate a Title I information service as a Title II common-carrier service.
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AT&T had argued that the 2015 FCC order classifying it as a common carrier let it off the hook in a case brought against it by the FTC — which has no authority over common carriers.
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Last year, three federal judges in California issued a complicated decision that could — even after the FCC undoes Title II — deny the FTC jurisdiction over broadband providers that also provide a common carrier service, like telephony.
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While the complaint was over wireless internet services, AT&T claimed that because it provides mobile and landline voice services, it should be classified as a common carrier and therefore be made immune to the FTC's actions.
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Republicans have fought the 2015 order as "heavy-handed" because it reclassified broadband providers as telecommunications services, which carries a common carrier designation that opens the industry up to tougher regulations and oversight from the FCC. Reps.
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This includes all "reasonable" expenses such as meals, lodging, toiletries, medication, and other personal use items due to the covered delay, as long as your trip was on a common carrier or a public form of transportation.
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The confusion around double meanings runs through Common Carrier — the title itself is a legal term that both FedEx and Verizon use to their advantage — as well as the infiltration of product advertising into our ordinary language.
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Hyperallergic currently has one of only a few RT reviews — if not the sole reviews — for films like Angela's Diaries (the only review), Common Carrier (the only review), and Chung Kuo, Cina (one of just two reviews).
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Some credit cards, like Chase Sapphire Reserve and the United Explorer Card, offer a trip-delay benefit for common carrier travel (this would exclude things like taxi, commuter rail, and rental vehicle travel) purchased through the card.
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When you pay for travel with a common carrier with your credit card, you&aposll get up to $1,250 in coverage for the replacement of carry-on baggage and up to $500 for replacement of checked luggage.
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The Chase Freedom, United Explorer Card, and Starbucks card also include Trip Cancellation/Interruption insurance that covers non-refundable Common Carrier passenger fares (such as flights or a cruise.)What if I become ill with the coronavirus?
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The intense back-and-forth battle between the FTC and the company included dismissal of the case in 2017 on grounds that AT&T was a common carrier and because of this was not subject to FTC jurisdiction.
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Last year, the FTC warned that should the agency lose that court fight, it could create a situation where companies are able to dodge FTC oversight entirely if any part of their business qualifies for common carrier status.
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The agency filed a suit against AT&T in 2014, leading to a messy court battle in which the company claimed that its status as a "common carrier" meant that only the Federal Communications Commission could regulate it.
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Our story begins with the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) controversial decision to reclassify broadband Internet access as a Title II common carrier telecommunications service in its 2015 Open Internet Order With reclassification, two related legal effects were triggered.
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Note that this coverage is good for round-trip travel booked with your credit card, meaning you have to pay for travel expenses with a common carrier with your American Express credit card in order to be eligible.
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Understanding that James N. Kienitz Wilkins — whose new experimental documentary Common Carrier has its North American premiere at BAMcinemaFest tonight — most likely lives in my neighborhood is not the only reason for my personal connection to his work.
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We might have loved to turn away chlorine or ammonia because of dangers of carrying it that we can't get compensated for, but we are a common carrier and by law required to carry the freight offered to us.
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What they're saying: Republicans say they want reach a deal to codify net neutrality rules into law, but that they refuse to do so if it returns to the utility-style "common carrier" regime the FCC repealed last year.
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Even before he was named chair, Pai said he wanted to take a "weed whacker" to FCC regulations, and it was inevitable, given his and his party's hostility to net neutrality, that he would reverse Obama's common-carrier designation.
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While it's possible to have net neutrality without Title II — common carrier rules are just a way to go about implementing them — the argument gets a lot less convincing when you actually look at what they're proposing as an alternative.
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He also found that unique commenters had a more nuanced understanding of net neutrality law than lawmakers may have assumed, including regularly mentioning the decision to reclassify broadband as a common carrier under Title II of the Communications Act of 1996.
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But because the Trans-Pecos Pipeline is styling itself as a "common carrier," or a private company providing a public utility, it is able to continue building its pipeline through private property even as dollar amounts remain disputed in the courts.
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She writes: AT&T repackages the failed arguments made by regulated parties in such cases: it claims company-wide protection from the FTC because it engaged in some activities performed by an exempted party—in this case, a common carrier.
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If you're traveling by common carrier — airplane, train, ferry, bus, and similar public forms of transportation — and your trip is delayed, you can be covered for up to $500 of expenses, including a change of clothes, hotel room, toiletries, and meals.
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In 2005, the US Supreme Court opened the door for the latter when it upheld the FCC's authority to determine that cable internet providers were not subject to common carrier rules (and, hence, unbundling) in National Cable & Telecommunications Association v.
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Since the election, every signal sent so far from the Trump Transition and Republican-controlled Congress indicates an end to the FCC's roving, unbounded, hyper-regulation of competitive companies, a rollback of obsolete common carrier regulations, and a dramatically scaled back FCC.
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If you book a flight, train, ferry, bus, or other common carrier using the card, and you're delayed either overnight, or for more than six hours during the day, you'll be covered for up to $500 in expenses for each covered person.
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Google's decision to ban Gab — a social media platform where the mission is to "put free speech first" — from its Android operating system's store raises serious antitrust concerns and strengthens the justification for public utility or common carrier regulation of online platforms.
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It publishes information but eludes the definition of a publisher, claims to be a technology company but acts more like an advertising firm, exists as a sort of digital town square but is not subject to the rules of a common carrier.
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Enbridge Inc's Mainline system that carries about 1.2 million bpd of crude and other liquids operates as a common carrier, which means producers nominate, or request, space on the line on a monthly basis and are allocated a share of capacity based on total requests.
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FCC, where the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld Wheeler's controversial decision to reclassify broadband internet access as a Title II common carrier service, Wheeler is apparently betting that he has a hot hand on matters of agency deference.
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New technologies have spawned new regulatory challenges...Reaffirming FTC jurisdiction over activities that fall outside of common-carrier services avoids regulatory gaps and provides consistency and predictability in regulatory enforcement Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai, in a statement, also welcomed the result.
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Designating Google as a "common carrier": This unlikely option would allow Congress to appoint a regulator to oversee Google (as well as other online platforms) given its significant power and reach, something that could in turn lead to more restrictions on how it moderates content.
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In a divided vote last year, the FCC approved regulations that reclassified internet service as a common carrier so that the agency could have more authority to require internet service providers — such as Comcast, AT&T or Verizon — to treat all web traffic equally.
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If you have travel booked with a common carrier and are delayed by six hours or more, or require an overnight stay, you are covered for a hotel and meals up to $500 per ticket if you paid for the reservation with the Sapphire Reserve.8.
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"The interesting thing is that saying, 'I am for an open internet, I'm just not for the common carrier rules,' is kind of like saying, 'I'm for justice, just not for the courts overseeing it,'" said former FCC chairman Tom Wheeler, who produced the utility-style rules.
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It's worth remembering that Title II is still officially the law of the land, and although the FCC is doing its best to roll it back, Verizon Wireless is still legally a common carrier regulated under Title II, which means it's obligated to treat all traffic equally.
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Good. Basically AT&T argued in this case that because it was offering voice services, it was a common carrier even when it was offering data services — and thus, not even under the authority of the FTC in the first place, but the FCC, which governs telephony.
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The country's biggest oil producer, Canadian Natural Resources Ltd, asked the CER in a letter on Tuesday to first consider the fundamental question of whether Enbridge should be allowed to convert the Mainline from common carrier status to long-term contracting, before it examines other issues.
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Moreover, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled the FTC has no authority to police unfair and deceptive practices of any company with the "status" of common carrier, making the FCC's privacy rule-making even more important in ensuring that broadband users have robust privacy protections.
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For the FTC to take control of privacy oversight again, the FCC would have to reverse the net neutrality order's use of Title II. That's because Title II designates internet providers as a class of company known as a "common carrier," which the FTC is explicitly prohibited from investigating.
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At a bare minimum though, the FTC has to be at least somewhat accepting of them — a court has already ruled that blocking those things outright would treat internet providers like common carriers; and since this proposal removes the common carrier designation from internet providers, that won't be allowed.
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When it was acting as a telecommunications service provider (a type of "common carrier," a term we'll get to later), AT&T was expected to play by the FCC's rules, and when it was acting as a provider of information services, it would have to meet FTC standards.
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Pursuant to existing Federal Appeals Court decisions, the Federal Trade Commission Act is deemed to exempt common carriers from FTC jurisdiction, which means that because most major ISPs provide common carrier telephony services (think your home landline) in addition to Internet access, they will remain outside of FTC jurisdiction.
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In the meantime, enacting this CRA will simply mean that the FCC will police broadband privacy case-by-case — just as it has done for the two years under Democratic leadership since the FCC's Open Internet Order deprived the FTC of jurisdiction by reclassifying broadband as a common carrier service.
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In this case, the FCC runs into trouble because under the plain terms of its net neutrality rules, the commission nonetheless clearly intends to regulate terminating access as a common-carrier service (as the D.C. Circuit in Verizon previously recognized) by virtue of its no-blocking and no-paid-prioritization rules.
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The case in question had to do with the FTC alleging some shenanigans on the part of AT&T regarding unlimited rate plans — but, crucially, the alleged actions took place before the 2015 Open Internet Order that reclassified AT&T as a common carrier and transferred regulatory authority to the FCC.
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Greg Abbott signed legislation last week that will increase punishment for stealing mail, which is defined as "a letter, postal card, package, bag, or other sealed article" addressed to an individual that has been dropped off by a common carrier or delivery service, or has been left by a customer for pickup.
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At the heart of the appeal is the FCC's controversial decision to reverse nearly two decades of bipartisan policy by reclassifying broadband Internet access from a lightly regulated "information service" under Title I of the Communications Act to a heavily regulated common carrier "telecommunications service" under Title II of the Communications Act.
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The court's ruling was a certainty for the F.C.C. Two of the three judges who heard the case late last year agreed that wireless broadband services were also common carrier utility services that were subject to anti-blocking and discrimination rules, a decision protested by wireless carriers including AT&T and Verizon Wireless.
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Adding to the legal morass, Wheeler's decision on reclassification has essentially stripped the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) — the agency that traditionally has jurisdiction over digital privacy concerns for the entire internet ecosystem — from bringing a privacy enforcement action against BSPs because the FTC has no jurisdiction over firms which provide a "common carrier" service.
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According to the US Helicopter Safety Team, accident rates in general aviation — the type of flight performed by a private individual or company including private charters, as opposed to a common carrier like an airline or some larger charter companies — show that helicopters are actually involved in slightly fewer accidents than fixed-wing aircraft.
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A shocking number of self-proclaimed broadband boosters urge policy makers to heavily tax the companies investing in the infrastructure; regulate them as if they were common carrier monopolies rather than the competitive players they are; and then subsidize consumers who cannot afford broadband services whose prices have been inflated by all the taxes and regulation.
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"There is a potential gap right now in the jurisdiction of the two agencies, which Congress ought to remedy by removing the so-called common carrier exemption, and then the FTC would have authority over all of the providers in the internet ecosystem," said Randolph May, president of the Free State Foundation, which has supported Pai's moves.
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE is likely to take a hard look at net neutrality and the reclassification of broadband as a Title II common carrier service.
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Multiple vignettes run through Common Carrier, focusing on the lives of a small group of creative people: Wilkins plays a version of himself, fixing products around his apartment via YouTube tutorials and stressing out about a USB stick containing his work that FedEx has misplaced; a screenwriter dealing with a child custody battle and forced to do construction work while figuring out ways to write a sellable screenplay; an art collector; two artists; and an urban shaman.
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With the FCC's controversial decision to reclassify broadband internet access as a Title II common carrier "telecommunications" service in its 2015 Open Internet order (currently on appeal, with a decision expected any moment), all broadband service providers (BSPs) — whether wireline, cable or wireless — are now subject to the Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) statutory framework contained in Section 222 of the Communications Act — rules which were designed for pre-internet services offered by the handful of telephone companies in existence at the time.
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While everyone agrees that it is important to have a free and open internet, the crux of the problem has always been legal—that is, does the Federal Communications Commission have sufficient authority to protect consumers under its previous bi-partisan "light touch" approach under Title I of the Communications Act, or must it invoke the nuclear option and subject the internet to a law intended to govern the old Ma Bell monopoly by reclassifying broadband internet access as common carrier telecommunications service?
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According to Ars Technica, the company filed paperwork describing the meeting, in which Comcast Senior VP Frank Buono and an attorney urged Pai's staff to revoke the classification of broadband as a Title II common carrier—a status which currently prevents internet service providers from offering more aggressively tiered services and throttling or censoring competitors' content—as well as prevent states from imposing their own rules:We also emphasized that the Commission's order in this proceeding should include a clear, affirmative ruling that expressly confirms the primacy of federal law with respect to BIAS [Broadband Internet Access Service] as an interstate information service, and that preempts state and local efforts to regulate BIAS either directly or indirectly.
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Solid travel coverage for a sub-$21 travel card: Chase Sapphire PreferredAnnual fee: $2000Welcome bonus: 2000,2500 Chase Ultimate Rewards points after you spend $753,275 in the first three monthsTrip cancellation/interruption insurance: Reimbursement of up to $2000,25 per person and $20,000 per trip for pre-paid, non-refundable travel expenses like plane tickets, hotel reservations, and hotelsTrip delay insurance: Up to $500 per ticket in coverage for expenses like meals and lodging (that aren't reimbursed by the airline or other "common carrier") when your trip is delayed more than 12 hours or requires an overnight stayBaggage delay insurance: Up to $100 in reimbursement per day for up to five days for essential purchases like clothing and toiletries for baggage delays of six hours or moreLost luggage reimbursement: Up to $3,0003 per person if you or an immediate family member check or carry on luggage that is damaged or lostRental car coverage: Primary coverage; up to $75,000 for theft and collision for rental cars in the US and abroad.
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Best travel coverage on a business card: Ink Business Preferred cardAnnual fee: $95Welcome bonus: 80,5003 Chase Ultimate Rewards points after you spend $5,000 in the first three monthsTrip cancellation/interruption insurance: Reimbursement of up to $5,000 per trip for pre-paid, non-refundable travel expenses like plane tickets, hotel reservations, and hotelsTrip delay insurance: Up to $500 per ticket in coverage for expenses like meals and lodging (that aren't reimbursed by the airline or other "common carrier") when your trip is delayed more than 12 hours or requires an overnight stayBaggage delay insurance: Up to $100 in reimbursement per day for up to five days for essential purchases like clothing and toiletries for baggage delays of six hours or moreLost luggage reimbursement: Up to $3,000 per person if you or an immediate family member check or carry on luggage that is damaged or lostRental car coverage: Primary coverage when you're renting a car for business purposes; up to $75,000 for theft and collision for rental cars in the US and abroad.
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