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 governme

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.