If they still support the Senate version (PROTECT-IP / PIPA) this means little. I'm ecstatic that the anti-SOPA crowd is advancing by leaps and bounds on an almost daily basis here, but in the next month we need to up the pressure on PIPA too - especially because it's farther along (full Senate set to discuss it January 24)
Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA
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Re: Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA
#132GoDaddy previously invested time and money into supporting this legislation: "have worked with federal lawmakers for months to help craft revisions to legislation first introduced some three years ago."
Let's see them invest some time and money into stopping SOPA. Making a statement is one thing, but money is speech these days and they can afford better lobbyists than we can.
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#133I just go off the phone with Stephanie Bracken.
She was very nice and polite and sounded more like a good sales guy than PR (perhaps its the same?).
I got the story that they have millions of domains and blah blah blah, and pretty much you all are right: "GoDaddy heard all their customers complaining about SOPA, so not to lose too much business we deciding to change our approach".
I asked what it means "no longer support", she said GD will withdrew their name from the SOPA list, stop lobbying and encourage other companies to stay against.
As before I was aside of this, now GD sounds like a lose flag on the wild wind. This will make me transfer my domains out of GD as they are too unpredictable. What if too many users whine that they owe my domains and GD "will transfer them because they dont want to lose business".
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#134No matter what they say, GoDaddy hasn't reversed their position until they do so in front of Congress and publicly withdraw their letter of support from the judiciary committee hearings.
what could they say? we know sopa would make us some money but even before it's legilated it started to cost us money than we had to withdrew our support?
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
Businesses run the government. Money controls business. This happened to be one of those issues where it was very easy to clearly show the company that their particular actions would not be tolerated. Not only that, but the difficulty of moving your support away from them was tremendously easy as well. Because of limitations, not all industries enjoy this sort of free market-esque lateral movement. Comm companies, fo…
That's 1 down, 141 to go. Who's next? http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/SOPA%20Su...
There's no good place to say this, but that URL bothers me every time I see it. What the hell are "Rouge Websites?" I think they meant something else. :-P
Re: Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA
#136The only thing this means is that community action actually made a difference. That's immensely reassuring. Can we keep doing this, but for SOPA itself?
I wonder how much of a hand in this Google had? They have a relationship with GoDaddy and I think they were unhappy about this too.
I think it may have been StackOverflow that made them take notice.
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#137Re: Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA
#138> "Go Daddy has always fought to preserve the intellectual property rights of third parties, and will continue to do so in the future"
Maybe I'm being overly cynical, but this reads to me like: we still support SOPA, but we're going to pretend we don't, because we realise our customers are against it, but feel we can fool them by making a pro forma denunciation of SOPA.
I'm not a customer of Go Daddy, but if I was I would still transfer my domains. This declaration isn't good enough for me.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's 1 down, 141 to go. Who's next? http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/SOPA%20Su...
There's no good place to say this, but that URL bothers me every time I see it. What the hell are "Rouge Websites?" I think they meant something else. :-P
Clearly, they mean websites that are red. Red means communist. We must protect ourselves from the threat of communism.
Re: Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA
#140Too late. Their petulant and dickish responses from the last few days show their true feelings on the issue.