Internet Revolts Against Go Daddy's SOPA Support

[Thyunda]

This debate is about preserving, protecting, and creating American jobs and protecting American consumers from the dangers that they face on-line."

They didn't follow up with "Won't someone think of the American children?"?

((Apologies for double post, but it's a real pain to edit-then-quote.)

How often are these people actually on the Internet? Who still uses a hyphen in online? Even my spell-checker has stopped doing that, and this thing is trapped in the 1920s.

 

[maninahat]

You know what, I don't care what they think either way. I don't see the point in telling them what bills they may or may not support.

And though it is the consumers right to boycott GoDaddy's services, I don't expect that those doing so will have any sizeable impact on the business, or give them a moments pause. I think they're wasting their time trying to make the business re-address its (calculated) decisions.

 

[Strazdas]

Better question is, why do peopel still use godaddy to begin with? then again, its probaby as empty of a question as why do people who hate thier info being sold still use facebook.

this is a nice notion, but it will not suceed. people are NEVER united enough. we wont see french revolution.

 

[kebab4you]

Fun Fact: Wikipedia uses GoDaddy as their host so I would recommend you send of a few mail to them, might do something.

OT: To be honest, up to this point I always thought GoDaddy was a porn site, since this was the only ad I saw about the site(probably NSFW):

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

So, they support idiot politicians in their pursuit to hand over the keys of the internet kingdom over to nefarious corporations?
This calls for a:

Seriously, I think TotalBiscuit(who I am quick to remind you IS A F***ING UK LAW GRADUATE)
explains it best:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhwuXNv8fJM
The thing which annoys me the most is that people who support the bill don't know anything about it, and how it can impact, literaly, everyone who uses the internet, and I cannot trust EA with anything of late, due to their screwed-up, immature marketing campaigns and Origin, which the evil sibiling of Steam.
Maybe those Corporations won't go crazy with power, but the recent MegaUpload scandal confirmed the worst.

 

[_tinned_magpie_]

Wait... it's about creating jobs? And there's no First Amendment concern? Good lord, the reading on my bullshit-o-meter is off the charts.

Still, I get a feeling that it's less about 'protecting American consumers' and more about this:

 

[Something Amyss]

Wait... it's about creating jobs?

Or protecting them! Piracy destroys jobs equal to 300% of the national unemployment rate!

...Or something.

You're right, though. It's not about protecting American consumers. It's about protecting corporations at the expense of consumers.

But that's the American way, innit?

 

[SilentHunter7]

You're right, though. It's not about protecting American consumers. It's about protecting corporations at the expense of consumers.

But that's the American way, innit?

But didn't you know? According to the Supreme Court, corporations are people now.

 

[Blind0bserver]

You know, for a bit I didn't understand GoDaddy's motivations here. A company that licenses out internet domains supporting a bill that could actually break the internet just made no logical sense. Kind of like, say, Budweiser supporting a prohibition bill. Then a friend of mine phrased it like this:

It is like if a beer manufacturer sells you beer, but after you take a sip, some dick knocks the beer out of your hand and you have to buy another one. If it happens enough, the beer manufacturer could see a decent increase in profit.

GoDaddy is the beer manufacturer hiring dicks to knock beer out of your hand.

So that's their angle. Someone, for some asinine reason, owns a domain with GoDaddy. For whatever reason their domain gets blacklisted by SOPA and GoDaddy is ordered to take it down. The owner of said domain then buys a new domain to replace the last one, and so on and so forth.

In a nutshell GoDaddy is very aware of the implications of SOPA and is hoping to make money hand over fist by selling replacement domains after takedowns.

 

[Kross]

In a nutshell GoDaddy is very aware of the implications of SOPA and is hoping to make money hand over fist by selling replacement domains after takedowns.

That makes a lot of sense. Especially as spammers already pay them large quantities of money to mass register domains to send people to. Domains that already get blacklisted in a couple days. I don't imagine something like SOPA would do much to damage that tactic.

 

[ThunderCavalier]

I have nothing against stating your own opinions or trying a new business direction or anything like that.

But seriously, GoDaddy? As a business that primarily invests in the Internet, you'd think that the last thing you'd want to do is do something that PISSES THEM OFF. Then again, looking at your ads reminds me that you probably don't think too highly of your consumers, anyway.

 

[ThunderCavalier]

I have nothing against stating your own opinions or trying a new business direction or anything like that.

But seriously, GoDaddy? As a business that primarily invests in the Internet, you'd think that the last thing you'd want to do is do something that PISSES THEM OFF. Then again, looking at your ads reminds me that you probably don't think too highly of your consumers, anyway.

 

[Something Amyss]

But didn't you know? According to the Supreme Court, corporations are people now.

Not only people, but the only people of consequence.

Okay, captcha on this is assamen, amendatory.

Ass amen? Seriously?

 

[brainslurper]

Aaaauuughh...*face in hands* my sites are under godaddy, I really really do not want to sit there and move them and have them reestablished somewhere else. This makes me both irritated at myself and pissed at them.

Same here. I am hoping that they will eventually abandon their stance so I don't have to bother.

 

[kebab4you]

Apparently they dropped it after mass rage from the internet:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/victory-boycott-forces-godaddy-to-drop-its-support-for-sopa.ars

I would however still advice you to switch from GoDaddy since they still stand as an awful business and have they once supported the bill they might swing back to it just in a more discrete way.

 

[Psychemaster]

Apparently they dropped it after mass rage from the internet:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/victory-boycott-forces-godaddy-to-drop-its-support-for-sopa.ars

I would however still advice you to switch from GoDaddy since they still stand as an awful business.

This. Also here's the official release.

http://www.godaddy.com/newscenter/release-view.aspx?news_item_id=378

 

[Jim Profit]

>It's about freedom of speech!
Coming from one of the most ban happy forums on the internet with an achievement that literally states it's near impossible to go six months without a moderator sticking his dick in your eye.

>Corporations MAN!!!
You mean like escapist? Oh, I didn't realize that petty bourgeois was so much more moral then high stakes bourgeois.

 

[Ragnarok185]

can anyone say "bribe". because this is what totally happened.