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Godaddy is also, IMO, way worse. After a forum I was on got flooded with CSAM shit, I did some hunting and found out it was all hosted on Godaddy hosting. I co
by px43 3y ago
Godaddy is also, IMO, way worse.
After a forum I was on got flooded with CSAM shit, I did some hunting and found out it was all hosted on Godaddy hosting. I collected all the info and sent it to them, and got silence. I checked around, and it sounds like tons of people had done the same thing, and the ones who got responses were along the lines of "not our problem, call the FBI", and people who reported through FBI/NCMEC still saw zero action. I was looking at years old threads of people reporting the same exact sites I was trying to report, with no one getting anywhere.
These are straight up child porn sites, hosted by GoDaddy hosting (not just the domains), which were up for years on the plain internet, not on Tor, or even something where passwords were required or something. This wasn't a long time ago either, this was like, a few years ago, and no one at GoDaddy gave a shit. Absolutely infuriating.
- unethical_ban 3y agoWhat could be the rationale? Not wanting to validate the CSAM for fear of becoming responsible for it, or not wanting to hire the staff/buy the infrastructure to "cleanly" handle such stuff?
- neilv 3y agoI wouldn't expect GoDaddy to care, unless they'd had a compliance fear of G-d put into them. But if the proper US authorities were knowingly permitting that material and activity to persist on a big US company's servers, one theory would be that they're using it to map out people who produce, distribute, and seek that material. This resulting in more people encountering the evil material might only increase political support for this and other surveillance efforts. Or maybe this is actually small potatoes among the tasking of the authorities, and they don't have enough resources for all of it, so they have to triage.