[Discuss] why don't web hosts scan their sites?

[wdc at MIT.EDU (William Cattey)]

It sounds like a job for a "Best Practices" document that cloud service providers should hand out
with the rest of their documentation that makes it easy for the customers to do the right thing.

-Bill

On Nov 18, 2013, at 2:17 PM, Richard Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:

> Eric Chadbourne wrote:
>> Their servers are serving malware.  A lot of it I bet.  I also bet in
>> their user agreement says you can't do that.  Couldn't they use this
>> as a reason?  They would be doing us all a favor.
> 
> In principle, a common carrier cannot police the content or goods it carries. A common carrier must be neutral to all of the content it carries. If it discriminates then it ceases being a common carrier and forfeits its safe harbor. If a third party complains about a hosted service and that complaint is founded then the provider may have recourse depending on law and the terms of any contracts signed with users.
> 
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> Rich P.
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