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Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA

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Re: Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA

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More like "GoDaddy no longer publicly supports SOPA". Just looking out for their bottom line, I'm sure.

That is the simple rule of life. If you ever wonder why someone/company is doing what they do, follow the money.

Why does Google work on self-driving cars and cancer diagnostics?

Re: Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA

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> "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…

Agreed. They were totally for SOPA yesterday, and even went so far as to publicly antagonize people who disagreed with their position. Their general counsel was also an architect of the bill. Forgive me if I don't quite buy that they're going to stop pulling strings in SOPA's favor behind the scenes.

Re: Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA

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Hah. I just reloaded HN and clicked the comments here -- I've had a few drinks -- I thought this was the same article along the lines of "Go Daddy Supports SOPA", until I read through the responses. This just shows what a couple thousand mobilized, highly motivated geeks can do in six hours. HN is solely responsible for this. Imagine if the top-ten stories for the day on this board were about the conditions at Apple'…

"Imagine if the top-ten stories for the day on this board were about the conditions at Apple's factories in China" Or imagine if the top ten stories pointed out that they aren't Apple's factories, but Foxconn's, and that Foxconn also makes the Playstation 3, the Wii, the Xbox, and the Amazon Kindle, as well as stuff for Acer, ASUS, Cisco, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung... Yet somehow Apple always ta…

Fair enough. My point wasn't to single out Apple.

Re: Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA

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I've been reading over GoDaddy's blog posting from yesterday, and I just can't dismiss the feeling that GoDaddy's position as one of the largest domain registrars has given them a different view of American businesses facing difficulty with these so-called "foreign-based websites." The blog posting emphasizes several times the importance and need to protect American businesses, which to me seems patriotic and sympath…

As a registrar that does business internationally, it may seem (to an American) that it is appropriate for them to be patriotic ... but it is certainly not a good way to continue appealing to international consumers. The Internet should be boundary-free.

Re: Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA

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post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh, you're absolutely right. So people were able to make GoDaddy change their mind by impacting their bottom line. Instead of going through businesses to try to tell the government what the citizens think, and besides writing or calling politicians, what can we do?

Occupy!

There's a lot of truth in these comments. The most effective change is productive change. Don't like something? Do something that's better. Look at startups like Square who are turning payment processing on its ear, or our project, Ting.com, promising to turn mobility on its ear. Doing a startup that tries to stick it to the man is probably the most effective means of achieving real positive change.

Occupy The Internet!

Re: Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA

#158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is the simple rule of life. If you ever wonder why someone/company is doing what they do, follow the money.

Why does Google work on self-driving cars and cancer diagnostics?

...because nobody got rich off pharma, and the kind of AI tech on self driving cars has no real world applications.

Re: Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA

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post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh, you're absolutely right. So people were able to make GoDaddy change their mind by impacting their bottom line. Instead of going through businesses to try to tell the government what the citizens think, and besides writing or calling politicians, what can we do?

Occupy!

I think some good points are made in this post. People need to start implementing or at least, work toward implementation of changes to the status quo, whatever the industry/sector may be. Unless that happens, it is all moot.

Re: Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA

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OccupyWallStreet should notice this. A group of people focused on actionable items makes results. A group of people camping in a park makes conversation.

This is such a clear contrast: 1) Set a goal 2) achieve it v.s. 1) Reject any goal setting 2) ???

I suppose the exception would be the response to BoA's $5 fee.

Anyways, good job community. This is effective protest.

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