It sounds like a job for a "Best Practices" document that cloud service providers should hand out with the rest of their documentation that makes it easy for the customers to do the right thing.
-Bill On Nov 18, 2013, at 2:17 PM, Richard Pieri <richard.pi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Eric Chadbourne wrote: >> Their servers are serving malware. A lot of it I bet. I also bet in >> their user agreement says you can't do that. Couldn't they use this >> as a reason? They would be doing us all a favor. > > In principle, a common carrier cannot police the content or goods it carries. > A common carrier must be neutral to all of the content it carries. If it > discriminates then it ceases being a common carrier and forfeits its safe > harbor. If a third party complains about a hosted service and that complaint > is founded then the provider may have recourse depending on law and the terms > of any contracts signed with users. > > -- > Rich P. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
