Preventing Illegal Upload

Question

Imagine a website that allows users to upload files and images so that they can be shared. I wish to prevent users from uploading/sharing illegal content such as copyright materials and child pornography. My website will be hosted on a cloud service, such as google cloud.

1. Does cloud services offer content filtering for my website?
2. Is there any API or similar that I can implement in my coding to scan for such uploads?
3. How does sites such as Dropbox, Google and Facebook presumably avoid illegal content?

My question might be a bit vague or perhaps in the wrong forum but I am hoping you can help me and perhaps many others in the right direction so that we can avoid nasty people sharing nasty stuff through our websites. For a good cause.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, you have only two options :

• You check that upload content is legal

Which means that you have to watch every single video, picture or text file that is uploaded to your website

• You tell your users they cannot do it

By putting a disclaimer to upload only legal content, most hosts get away with it. They provide a service so you can declare illegal content and this service checks up declarations...

Yeah that sucks...