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"While it’s nice that they changed their stance (publicly, at least), you’ve got to ask yourself: do you want to continue throwing money at a company blind enough to support SOPA in the first place?"
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.
The boycott should continue until they either take - or announce their plan of - action. Until they do, this PR talk is nothing more than that.
They already did the damage, and they've showed many, many, many times over that they do not deserve to have anyone's business.
The boycott should remain.
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'…
> HN is solely responsible for this Several communities worked together, such as the tech blogosphere, Reddit, and other social media. Although HN may be the birthplace of the idea to boycott Godaddy, its hardly just HN being responsible.
I'm relatively sure the idea started on reddit too.[1][2]
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[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3381822
[2]: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nmnie/godaddy_supp...
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They will think at least twice about it before lending their name to such a thing publicly.
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 )…
Isn't it obvious to everyone that they are still supporting SOPA, but realized that supporting it publically was a bad call?
I cannot trust a company who changes their philosophy based on how well it impacts their business.
For better or for worse all companies' philosophies are to make money, at least the public ones. They can be sued if they deviate.
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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?
I think the mature thing to do, as cynical as this might sound, is to realize that the government is obscenely out of touch with its constituency, and stop going to them for help. Instead, influence the influencers. At the end of the day, all companies have is customers. If the customers stop utilizing their services, the companies are forced to stop pushing their anti-consumer agendas into legislation. Part of this…
The 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?
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And that’s fine! They’ve turned you off as a customer, based on issues that are important to you. I’m simply pointing out that (perhaps) outcomes matter a bit more than our indignant feelings.
But what is the outcome? In what way does this undo the damage? They submitted a letter of support, and I presume money, to Congress. A post on their web page does not take back any of that.