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I think there's a meaningful difference between a media company (Facebook/Twitter/etc.) and an infrastructure provider.

I expect the electric company to provide electricity to everyone on a non-discriminatory basis. I don't expect publishers to print everything that gets submitted to them.

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Facebook claims to provide service to 25% of the world population. I think it's worth considering whether they are communication carriers at this point.

Real-world concepts of common carriers are centered around the concept of natural monopolies arising from local effects. That does not take networking effects into account which can work non-locally.

Could you expand on this a little? I'm confused because the ACLU is not a government organization, they're not part of the infrastructure.

His parent was referring to Cloudflare suspending their services for the Daily Stormer, which was presumably the impetuous for this whole post.

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