No 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.
hear hear.
Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA
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#182I wonder if punishing Go Daddy into withdrawing SOPA support made things worse by taking one of the "good guys" voices off the table. That is, they might have been trying to make it closer to a law we could live with than, say, the MPAA.
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#183I just tried to follow this link on my phone and it redirects to godaddymobile.com to show me some spam and no article. And they're in the Internet business...?
This company just reeks of clunkiness and tackiness. As keeps being mentioned, I can't believe tech-savvy, well-informed, well-educated people (e.g. YC founders) could go on godaddy.com, see their marketing material ("Go Daddy Girl (R)" ... what?!), their interface etc., and still go ahead and give them money.
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, they can just continue to lend their name to shooting elephants and misogynist ads. I seriously doubt this is going to have much of an impact on them. So this one particular instance came back to bite them, good to know for them that pissing off techies is bad for business but animal rights people, devout christians and women ( all of whom have complained about various other parts of their business in the past )…
While I agree that their ads sucks, I don't think they're misogynist. Like every ad, they're targeted to a specific audience.
most of their ads show some woman exhibiting reluctance to undressing, and then the men around her coercing her to do so anyways.
of course they're misogynist.
But of course, you have to understand that it's part of the company's philosophy. This is the same CEO that came out in favor of waterboarding: http://www.metafilter.com/42906/Dear-Bob-Im-glad-youre-not-i...
the same CEO that goes elephant hunting: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/bob-parsons-godaddy...
supporting SOPA fits in line with that philosophy. The one thing waterboarding, elephant hunting, SOPA and their misogynistic ads have in common is the element of using force against those who are far weaker than you are.
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#185I think they're lying and still support it just don't want to lose the money.
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#186too late, in fact will never use godaddy.
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#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, they can just continue to lend their name to shooting elephants and misogynist ads. I seriously doubt this is going to have much of an impact on them. So this one particular instance came back to bite them, good to know for them that pissing off techies is bad for business but animal rights people, devout christians and women ( all of whom have complained about various other parts of their business in the past )…
While I agree that their ads sucks, I don't think they're misogynist. Like every ad, they're targeted to a specific audience.
Misogynistic (the hatred of women)? No, not in the ads, anyway.
Sexist? Furtherance of gender inequality? Perhaps as a side effect.
Sexual objectification? Definitely.
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#188Next up: AT&T and Net Neutrality?!
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#189I guess we can say that godaddy is eventually consistent.
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#190Earlier 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...
https://www.graphicartistsguild.org/ !! :)
They point to position statements ( https://twitter.com/#!/gaguild/status/150004542073872386 "Sure we're giving the gov't the right to indefinitely detain anyone, but they're only going to do it if someone is rilly rilly bad, so don't worry! :)"* *I know SOPA isn't the same, it's just an analogy :)