How come advertising standards haven't come down on the hosting industry yet?

Or whatever? Because with all the blatantly untrue claims of unlimited hosting, the fairly high amount of scam operations set up on a fly by night basis and the web hosting directories, the industry's basically like the wild west at the moment.

So why haven't the likes of the advertising standards authority and trading standards cracked down on web hosting companies and others in this market yet? It looks like the kind of thing that should be happening at some point, especially for the hosts offering impossible services and directory owners blatantly misleading the public about their sites being part of an affiliate scheme rather than legitimate resources.

 

There is no governing "internet law." Even if you can prove damages by the legal burden of proof standard there has to be someone to serve due process. Then there are jurisdictional issues. Is the venue the plaintiff's location, the defendant's location, or the location of incorporation of the host? Is there an agreement to binding arbitration? Is there an agreement to each party paying his or her own legal costs? Is the host even a legal business? Does it have registered officers? An agent for service? Has it filed bankruptcy? Does it have legal counsel?

There are so many hoops one has to jump through that one would have to have a huge financial claim to justify even attempting litigation. The same would apply to any class action.

 

Some very good points raised. Despite the difficulties, there should be some efficient governing body to handle these things.

Unfortunately the powers that be seem unable to keep up with the rapid changes on the internet.

Despite the losses of Billions of dollars to fraud by the USA alone, it has taken many years to at last set up some cybercrime units to act.
I fear that other bad things will take even longer to have action taken to stop.