False. The government built ARPANET but the Internet is much more than that. They do not own the Internet.
False. Paying a fee for the service is a requirement to constitute a common carrier.
A common carrier is a person or a commercial enterprise that transports passengers or goods for a fee and establishes that their service is open to the general public. Typical examples of common carriers include, a shipowner, railroad, airline, taxi service, etc. A private carrier, on the other hand, is a person or a commercial enterprise that only agrees in particular circumstances to transport passengers or goods. Private carriers differ from common carriers because they don’t establish that their service is open to the general public. In other words, private carriers enter into a contract with each customer without the assumption that a similar contract will be available to the next customer.
ARPANet was in the 1960s. The Internet was mostly for government and schools until 1991.
Only then were private companies allowed to use it much at all.
The government built, runs, regulates, and owns the internet, always has and always will.
Of course Twitter does not transport anything.
That is the whole point, in that Twitter than has to abide by the rules of those who actually do all the transporting.
Twitter created and owns nothing, so then does not get to set ANY rules at all.
But since Twitter does not create, alter, shape or form content in any way, (according to their own promises), it the is a common carrier.
And it deliberately claimed to be a common carrier in order to avoid civil liabilities for damaging stuff that does get posted on Twitter occasionally.
If they were not common carrier, then they could be sued and spend a lot of money in court.
Read your own def of private carrier.
The Terms of Service agreement is individually negotiated per customer.
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In other words, private carriers enter into a contract with each customer without the assumption that a similar contract will be available to the next customer. ...}
And that clearly is not true with Twitter. Every customer is generic.
Trump is the first and only person ever banned, which is clearly discriminatory, dangerous, and illegal.
No democracy could survive such abusive social media.