A common carrier in common law countries (corresponding to a public carrier in civil law systems,[1] usually called simply a carrier) is a person or company that transports goods or people for any person or company and that is responsible for any possible loss of the goods during transport.[2] A common carrier offers its services to the general public under license or authority provided by a regulatory body. The regulatory body has usually been granted “ministerial authority” by the legislation that created it. The regulatory body may create, interpret, and enforce its regulations upon the common carrier (subject to judicial review) with independence and finality, as long as it acts within the bounds of the enabling legislation.
See there was only one railroad bridge in and out of NYC, the Hudson River Bridge. Since NYC was the largest US port at the time and Vanderbilt owned the only bridge he decided to single handedly blockade the port of NYC from all compeeting railroad companies.
Vanderbilt used his control of this choke point to make himself very wealthy on the backs of average consumers who would have to pay higher prices for anything that had parts or pieces that entered or left NYC by train. He used this money to buy even more competing railroads and create/leverage more and more choke points in the nations railway infrastructure.
Eventually, when anti-trust regulations were created there was a rule inserted about “common carriage.” It made it illegal to do things like Vanderbilt did and refuse to carry your competitors (or charge them extra and exorbitant fees) on important national infrastructure.
Cornelius Vanderbilt and later his son William Vanderbilt controlled the railroads.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-net-neutrality-Is-it-good-or-bad
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