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by maxander 3490 days ago
If they start accepting takedown requests as a general policy, though, they become an attack vector themselves. Their customers would start getting calls saying "give us $LARGE_SUM in untraceable bills or there'll suddenly be thousands of plausibly-authentic complaints that your $VALID_BUSINESS is actually a malicious site"; no one wants that. They've decided to not make themselves the internet police for a reason.