When I worked for an ISP, our TOS clearly spelled out that while we were pretty liberal (we co locate a couple of legal porn sites, and hosted a few more) Things like Child Pornography, hacking sites and warez sites would not be tolerated and we would assist law enforcement with prosecution of anything or anyone related to it
Scott A. Stewart, Web Application Developer Engineering Consulting Services, Ltd. (ECS) 14026 Thunderbolt Place, Suite 300 Chantilly, VA 20151 Phone: (703) 995-1737 Fax: (703) 834-5527 "Many thousands of years ago, a blue faced Pict stepped on a bloated sheep carcass... and thus the Pipes were born" .... the Scottish Rogues -----Original Message----- From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 03:26 pm To: CF-Community Subject: Re: pro or con... Importance: Low It's a tough call. Because it's kiddie porn you want to say turn the bastard in. There are two problems with that however. When I was doing tech support for a web host, someone noticed what appeared to be child porn in someone's directory. After some discussion, we did nothing because 1) there was no report or complaint. The tech that noticed this was merely bored and clicking around. For all we knew the pictures were just being stored. Most importantly though, once we took responsibility for the contents of people's web directories, would we have to pre-approve them all? And what about things that are less obviously wrong, like, oh, political speech? Secondly, back to the computer in question, we don't know if the files in question were cache files or original material, or if they were simply pictures of children naked. There are possible innocent explanations for the cache files, and for the pictures of naked children. At what point do you decide that such things are criminal? Dana -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.10/73 - Release Date: 08/15/2005 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how to get a fax number that sends and receives faxes using your current email address http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=64 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:169680 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
