US has strong third party protection laws. If it doesn't, HN could be held accountable for illegal files that were converted to base64 and then posted in the co

US has strong third party protection laws. If it doesn't, HN could be held accountable for illegal files that were converted to base64 and then posted in the comments. I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, but as a third party you are not responsible for illegal data uploaded to your server/machine so long as you are not aware that it is illegal data. Once you are informed that there is illegal data on your machine, you have 24 hours to remove it.