Terrorist Web Sites Under Surveillance by ISPs

In an effort to prevent new terrorist attacksISP are beginning to do their part by maintaining content hosted. Aplus .Net for example, has used crawling technology similar to those in our favorite search engines to find sites with malicious intent, such as pro Al-Qaeda content. This picture is an example of a site (www.mojihedun.com) created in Pakistan - it was classified as a malicious Jihadi web site and was taken down and replaced with patriotic content. These sites violate contractual obligations in the Terms of Service within the theirISP, therefore removing the content is not illegal.

Every Web-site producer that posts content on the Internet via a commercial Internet Service Provider signs an agreement to abide by the terms of service of theISP . Most of these contracts contain provisions that indicate the posting of criminal or terrorist content is prohibited, so removing the content is well within the contractual rights of theISP.

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