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I can’t get out of being a getaway driver for a bank robbery by claiming I once did a regular Uber. Of course you can. If it can be proven your intent was to

I can’t get out of being a getaway driver for a bank robbery by claiming I once did a regular Uber. Of course you can. If it can be proven your intent was to help the bank robbers then you are complicit in the crime. If criminals used your service and you were either unaware or afraid for your life then at worst you would be a victim.

JumpCrisscross 2y ago
> If criminals used your service and you were either unaware or afraid for your life then at worst you would be a victim If you repeatedly found yourself in that situation, got paid for it each time, never reported it and bragged about it, no, you would be an accomplice. You would certainly claim to be a victim. (Everyone in Silicon Valley is a victim nowadays.) But that would be a poor defence, certainly against criminal investigation.
- LinuxBender 2y ago
  I acknowledge that is a poor defense. That said, all the CDN operators know of criminals on their network but will not take them down until either the government orders them to or until the bad publicity around a site can not be ignored 8chan as an example. Some of them talk about this. They do not want to officially get into the business of policing their customers or they would be expected to by the judicial system. To your point about money I think that is also a factor but in a different way. If every CDN/DNS/Registrar held their customers to the standards of their AuP/ToS they would lose most of their customers. When you get a chance read your AuP/ToS on your CDN/DNS/Registrar/VPS provider. Even lewd content highly subjective is an account terminating offense. They do this so they do not get sued or the suit is dismissed when they have to terminate an account but if they enforced it strictly nobody would invest in them and they would have no customers. I think I will leave the topic here since the thread was flagged. It has been an interesting and thought provoking discussion. I must go feed the critters now.

JumpCrisscross 2y ago

> If criminals used your service and you were either unaware or afraid for your life then at worst you would be a victim If you repeatedly found yourself in that situation, got paid for it each time, never reported it and bragged about it, no, you would be an accomplice. You would certainly claim to be a victim. (Everyone in Silicon Valley is a victim nowadays.) But that would be a poor defence, certainly against criminal investigation.

LinuxBender 2y ago
I acknowledge that is a poor defense. That said, all the CDN operators know of criminals on their network but will not take them down until either the government orders them to or until the bad publicity around a site can not be ignored 8chan as an example. Some of them talk about this. They do not want to officially get into the business of policing their customers or they would be expected to by the judicial system. To your point about money I think that is also a factor but in a different way. If every CDN/DNS/Registrar held their customers to the standards of their AuP/ToS they would lose most of their customers. When you get a chance read your AuP/ToS on your CDN/DNS/Registrar/VPS provider. Even lewd content highly subjective is an account terminating offense. They do this so they do not get sued or the suit is dismissed when they have to terminate an account but if they enforced it strictly nobody would invest in them and they would have no customers. I think I will leave the topic here since the thread was flagged. It has been an interesting and thought provoking discussion. I must go feed the critters now.