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by zaroth 2503 days ago
They are a platform distributing UGC protected by the CDA.

Any discussion of “common carrier” is entirely orthogonal, and basically nonsensical in the context of something like Twitter.

“Common carrier” generally arises as a trade-off for a government granted monopolies based on limited access right-of-ways. This was true for railways, and true for telephone wires. Why would this apply to a random service like Twitter?