[tremon]

For the same reason that ISPs tend to come under fire when their customers are using MTAs to deliver large volumes of e-mails to non-consenting recipients.

Are you saying it's not an ISP's problem that spammers are using their product in a legitimate manner, but instead it's up to the recipients to build their own spam fighting resources? Yes, that turned out wonderfully.

[belltaco]

Is it the phone companies' fault that people make death threats over the phone? Do we say 'Phone company makes death threats' when that happens like the title is saying about GitHub?

[tremon]

Death threats? WTF? What metaphor are you using that git clone requests are now suddenly death threats?

Anyway, I don't think your example aligns with the argument you think you're making: https://www.fcc.gov/enforcement/areas/unwanted-communication...

Yes, phone companies definitely can be liable for bulk targeting by their users.

[belltaco]

> What metaphor are you using that git clone requests are now suddenly death threats?

The headline and title are saying GitHub DDoSed a crucial open source site, so the metaphor is definitely valid. I did not compare DDoS to death threats, I compared the fact that it is being said that GitHub DDoSed the open source site and did a thought experiment to see what happens if something similar was said about the phone companies.