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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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Post by kissickas »

botker wrote: post #118
dclowd9901 wrote: post #34

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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...

I'm getting "The system cannot find the file specified." Anyone have a copy of the pdf or the fixed link?

Edit: Never mind, here is one: http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rogue%20Websites/List%20of...

The previous link was about "Rouge websites," not "Rogue websites."

Re: Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA

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Post by jberryman »

rhizome31 wrote: post #178
api wrote: post #143

Too little, too late. Fuck them. Of course, I would have said that before they stopped supporting SOPA. They've always been a sleazy spammy company whose advertising is full of blatant sexism. We should not have been surprise by their support of SOPA. Sleaze will do as sleaze does.

I've never been on their website (most of us over here use gandi.net) and was curious what you meant by blatant sexism and I just have to say wow. Just wow. It's so stupid it looks fake.

Be extremely thankful you don't have to actually use their goddamn site for anything.

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Post by bilban »

paul9290 wrote: post #203
dclowd9901 wrote: post #150

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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…

So your saying we need to boycott Hollywood ?!? Have everyone turn off their tvs, stop paying for cable tv, stop listening to popular music, stop going to the movies and such ? Good luck with that... Definitely need to focus on govt. maybe a OCCUPY Capitol Hill and other SOPA supportErs' premises is what is needed?!??

i think i could quite easily boycott hollywood. I would prefer to read a book any day of the week than induldge in that hype machine.

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Post by uiri »

paul9290 wrote: post #203
dclowd9901 wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

So your saying we need to boycott Hollywood ?!? Have everyone turn off their tvs, stop paying for cable tv, stop listening to popular music, stop going to the movies and such ? Good luck with that... Definitely need to focus on govt. maybe a OCCUPY Capitol Hill and other SOPA supportErs' premises is what is needed?!??

I don't think it is that unrealistic to expect a shift away from TVs. In fact, number of households with a TV set is starting a downward trend which is accelerating.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/11/30/tv-ownership-declines/

It is certainly possible to buy DRM-free tracks, and indeed this should be encouraged. Creative commons music exists too. Movies are another matter, although I don't think discouraging people from movies altogether is too unrealistic, that could just be because I'm not big on movies in general myself.

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Post by mixmastamyk »

Macha wrote: post #208
Vivtek wrote: post #136

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I think it may have been StackOverflow that made them take notice.

StackOverflow own what? 5 domains? stackoverflow.com, stackexchange.com, superuser.com, serverfault.com and stackapps.com . I can't see GoDaddy being that hugely influenced by 5 domains.

It's not the number but the influence of the entities behind them. If stackoverflow, reddit, and arsetechnica are commenting on an issue, you can be sure many will agree and join in.

Re: Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA

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Post by corford »

dclowd9901 wrote: post #150
markbao wrote: post #75

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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…

Amen to all of that!

As far as loan institutions go and trying to create something that lets people invest in one another, the UK already has something along those lines: http://uk.zopa.com

I think the idea is great and wish Zopa got more press than they do.

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Post by marquis »

mcherm wrote: post #207
dclowd9901 wrote: post #150

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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…

I love the idea of disrupting the loan structure. I think using things like Prosper or Lending Club is great. But I live in Pennsylvania where they are against the law. We cannot ignore the ways in which government is broken.

>where they are against the law

Is there a reason for that? To stop loan sharks, for example? (Which is a highly valid reason).

Re: Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA

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Post by mixmastamyk »

DilipJ wrote: post #184
slig wrote: post #57

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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.…

See harrylove's definition of misogynist below this. It's not a word that should be doled out frequently... just because an ad appreciates the female form.
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