You're being facetious because you're not that dense that you can't see a difference between a web application and a fiber connection, even if you don't support telecom reclassification.
>My point is just that the content vs means comparison is a very gray area in the age of the internet.
Yes, there are gray areas everywhere, but sometimes it's not that complicated. This one isn't complicated. In the set of complicated and ambiguous issues, this one is very well defined.
Its not that crazy. Google and Facebook depend on common carrier type protections to insulate them from, say, liability for the people who send child porn through their service.
> You're being facetious because you're not that dense that you can't see a difference between a web application and a fiber connection
Of course they are different in many ways. But they do have commonalities too. Its clear that fiber provides a means of communication. But I think if you asked the average person or lawmaker if Gmail provides a means of communication, they would also say yes. Is that even an unreasonable conclusion?
Yes, when you consider that its not "common carriers" such as FedEx which is being discussed, but "telecommunications common carriers", which inevitably relies on the definition of telecommunications. Which Wikipedia makes pretty clear is commonly understood to mean a physical medium based upon electrical signals or electromagnetic waves.
>My point is just that the content vs means comparison is a very gray area in the age of the internet.
Yes, there are gray areas everywhere, but sometimes it's not that complicated. This one isn't complicated. In the set of complicated and ambiguous issues, this one is very well defined.