Go Daddy Drops SOPA Support After Boycott Threat

[Jinx_Dragon]

I second the Let Them Burn mentality.

Go Daddy may simply lying through their teeth at the moment and still do fully support the bill, but no longer openly. I am sure they are only telling us what we want to hear at this point and if we believe them it will only encourage more companies to lie right to our face. If we let them crash right now, completely, it will stand as a warning to any other Internet company that thinks it can shit all over the users.

We won't stand for it and if we catch you doing it: We won't forgive.

 

[Bobbity]

They've already shown their true colours, so let them burn.

Going through the Reddit threads now, and it is awesome.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Backlash awaaaaaaaay!

Come on internet, prove your freedom is more important than your tendency to go with the flow due to apathy/laziness!

 

[Bobbity]

[HEADING=2]Well this is interesting...[/HEADING]
Hey, looks like the Escapist uses GoDaddy. Any chance of a little love for the anti-SOPA crowd, Escapist?

Just kidding by the way.

But seriously.

 

[mysecondlife]

I still say the customers should switch over to GoDaddy's rivals. I want to see how Go Daddy will try harder for next superbowl ad.

 

[Me55enger]

"...Go Daddy will support it when and if the Internet community supports it."

The internet community will support it when the internet community makes it.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

I still don't trust them. They backed down because it suits their business not because they believe SOPA is wrong. Every business that believes SOPA is the way to go deserves to go bankrupt. Every single last one of them.

"...Go Daddy will support it when and if the Internet community supports it."

The internet community will support it when the internet community makes it.

You win +10 Internets for this, sir.

 

[kiwi_poo]

oh, look the escapist has an official bad idea stamp. I bet they've been staming themselves like crazy recently.

on topic: meh. I've never heard of them before and will probably never hear from them again. less supporters of SOPA is always good, though.

 

[Robert Ewing]

While I ultimately agree to their shift in alignment with the SOPA thing.

I do not agree with the terms in which they did it. They switched sides as soon as their users started leaving? Seems a bit of a last ditch effort to me, they abandon their morals as soon as they get a little less site traffic.

SOPA is horrible...

 

[Ashendarei]

See? Bitching on the internet WORKS!

I don't know if I should be proud of this, or ashamed

 

[Jesus Phish]

Something tells me it's too little too late. They've pissed a lot of people off with their support and now that they're backing down, although good, shows weakness on their part.

 

[Antari]

They can change their position as many times as they like. What they don't realize is the first choice is what does the damage. And damage takes time to heal. If they were willing to put that little amount of thought into what they were doing. Then I'll return the favor and possibly think about them again in a decade or so. Just for old time's sake.

 

[RatRace123]

Meh, a simple apology's not good enough, especially when it's so obviously transparent.

No, for being stupid enough to publicly support SOPA in the first place GoDaddy needs to continue to be punished, all the way to bankruptcy if possible.
Maybe that'll send a message to the idiots who support SOPA.

"Yes, we will bankrupt a company if it supports this bill, what now bitches!?"

 

[RA92]

See? Bitching on the internet WORKS!

I don't know if I should be proud of this, or ashamed

Well, depends on the situation, I guess.

 

[4RM3D]

Internet 1
Go Daddy 0

And the fight continues...

SOPA must be purged from existence!

 

[hooksashands]

Another business learns the hard way that consumers control their market.

 

[ThunderCavalier]

imo, this is even worse. This just shows that they give two shits about what their customers think unless the customers are leaving.

They haven't tried to rectify or correct themselves on their stance; they simply did a complete 180 based on the reactions of their profits, not on the customers.

imo, let them BURN. They get absolutely no sympathy from me, nor should they from anyone else. Showing such fickle loyalties like that doesn't win you any friends; it just earns you the ire of everyone else.

 

[WanderingFool]

HOLY SHIT!

The internet actually did something like that for a somewhat good cause and not for the lulz?

 

[Pyramid Head]

Oh good. The world had enough stupidity when Bush and Clinton came out in defense of this motherfucking bill, the fewer corporations in favor of it the better. Especially since it looks like the politicians don't know the first fucking thing about the internet.

 

[darthotaku]

this isn't enough. we still need everyone to move away from go daddy. we need to bankrupt the company, and give all the support they once had to a company that villifies and fights against SOPA. then we can point at go daddy, and show that collectively the internet can decimate any company that antagonizes us. then we will win. we will make sure every CEO will be able to do the math and see that we, the consumers, rule them. if go daddy collapses because of their actions then big business support of SOPA will immediately stop for fear that the same will happen to other companies.