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Also sue Tim Berners Lee for inventing the WWW and HP(or Dell) for providing the servers and Intel for providing the chips. The suit makes sense but for godadd

Also sue Tim Berners Lee for inventing the WWW and HP(or Dell) for providing the servers and Intel for providing the chips. The suit makes sense but for godaddy. What is this war on the service providers lately.

rayiner 14y ago
If you're a gun salesman, you can get in trouble if you sell a gun to someone knowing that they're going to use it to kill someone. You don't get in trouble if you just sell a gun that happens to be used in a crime. I think this is a pretty common sense state of affairs. In this case, if GoDaddy continued to host the site after being made aware of its nature, why shouldn't they be held liable for helping to perpetuate the crime?
- venomsnake 14y ago
  Because GoDaddy shouldn't have the power to censor content hosted on their servers. It is up to the courts to decide what content is legal, not the corporation. If the site is legal, there is no reason to take it down. If the appropriate institutions decide that it is illegal they should take it down the moment the court order arrive and not a nanosecond earlier. I don't think that a world in which corporations are allowed to be gatekeepers on their own is a good one. That is why we have court system and rule of law.
  - rayiner 14y ago
    Their servers are their private property. They have both power and responsibility over what's on their servers, just as I do over what's on my lawn.
    - kamjam 14y ago
      So by that same reasoning, maybe the ISPs should all block access to this content, since it is via their service that the content is actually delivered?
      - rayiner 14y ago
        ISP's have a special status as common carriers. Not everything reduces to the ISP scenario. It's just how the owners of a private toll road don't have any responsibility if drugs are shipped over them, but the owners of a shop where drugs are being sold out of do. I'm not saying that you should be able to hold hosting providers liable for content they aren't aware of. I'm saying that hosting providers have a right to control the content that they host, and at the same time if they know about illegal content they have an obligation to address the problem.
        kamjam 14y ago
        But at this point the content has not been deemed illegal, no court has ruled as such. So the hosting provider has no obligation to remove it, doesn't matter how immoral it actually is.

rayiner 14y ago

If you're a gun salesman, you can get in trouble if you sell a gun to someone knowing that they're going to use it to kill someone. You don't get in trouble if you just sell a gun that happens to be used in a crime. I think this is a pretty common sense state of affairs. In this case, if GoDaddy continued to host the site after being made aware of its nature, why shouldn't they be held liable for helping to perpetuate the crime?

venomsnake 14y ago
Because GoDaddy shouldn't have the power to censor content hosted on their servers. It is up to the courts to decide what content is legal, not the corporation. If the site is legal, there is no reason to take it down. If the appropriate institutions decide that it is illegal they should take it down the moment the court order arrive and not a nanosecond earlier. I don't think that a world in which corporations are allowed to be gatekeepers on their own is a good one. That is why we have court system and rule of law.
- rayiner 14y ago
  Their servers are their private property. They have both power and responsibility over what's on their servers, just as I do over what's on my lawn.
  - kamjam 14y ago
    So by that same reasoning, maybe the ISPs should all block access to this content, since it is via their service that the content is actually delivered?
    - rayiner 14y ago
      ISP's have a special status as common carriers. Not everything reduces to the ISP scenario. It's just how the owners of a private toll road don't have any responsibility if drugs are shipped over them, but the owners of a shop where drugs are being sold out of do. I'm not saying that you should be able to hold hosting providers liable for content they aren't aware of. I'm saying that hosting providers have a right to control the content that they host, and at the same time if they know about illegal content they have an obligation to address the problem.
      - kamjam 14y ago
        But at this point the content has not been deemed illegal, no court has ruled as such. So the hosting provider has no obligation to remove it, doesn't matter how immoral it actually is.