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Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?

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Re: Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?

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Post by jaysonelliot »

blurbytree wrote: post #31
xinjiang wrote: post #21

I moved all my domains when the former CEO shot and killed an elephant, then gloated about it on video. It was both shocking and saddening for me. Now the elephant killing is kind of a Voight-Kampff test I use. Anyone who isn't bothered with the elephant shooting wouldn't be my friend. I wouldn't want that type of person as a business partner or employee either. I don't think I could trust them. I certainly wouldn't…

He killed the elephant because it was destroying the communities crops, and the community got fed well from the meat. I don't think it's quite as one sided as you propose.

Do you really think there were a bunch of villagers sitting in Africa, saying to themselves "our crops are being destroyed by this elephant, and we are so hungry—if only a rich American could fly halfway around the world to shoot an elephant for us?"

Re: Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?

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Post by zbuc »

the-cakeboss wrote: post #79
cyrusshepard wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He killed it for sport, the rest is an excuse. If he were concerned about the community food supply he could have donated food. Anyone who hires "booth babes" for spokespeople and is a fan of 24 (a show I used to work for) hunts because he enjoys it. Bob Parsons does not spend thousands of dollars to kill elephants for humanitarian reasons.

So you are offended by the intention? Plenty of people enjoy hunting. Does that make them bad people worthy of contempt? This whole elephant thing is ridiculous.

> Plenty of people enjoy hunting. Does that make them bad people worthy of contempt?

If they kill animals for fun, yes.

He paid $70,000 to shoot the elephant. He's sick.

Re: Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?

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Post by kermitthehermit »

blurbytree wrote: post #94
kermitthehermit wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What they're getting is well deserved. If I go out and do bad things, I go to jail, people will hate me / dislike me and wish that I stay in jail for a long time because I'm a criminal. Why should people & companies who threaten important civil rights and liberties be treated differently? It's not OK to do crimes which affect 1-100 persons, but it's OK to affect the basic civil liberties & free speech of hundreds of…

There's a thing called due process. There's law.

Due process? You mean like paying 50 millions to the congress to get a law to pass? Yeah, we can see how good this is.

Law? You mean like the 1st amendment of the US constitution? Yeah, we can see how easy new laws can override the previous laws.

Actually, the law has a funny way of working. It seems it works for you when you're rich and against you when you're not a millionaire.

Keep talking about the law & due process.

I choose to tell everyone I possibly can about these companies and not use their services & not buy their products.

Re: Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?

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Post by zbuc »

blurbytree wrote: post #93
darkane wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think you understand how the government works. Most dystopian legislation is written and paid for by those "random" companies.

So fix the bit that's broken - the government. Companies are just playing by the rules.

They're both broken. HTH.

Re: Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?

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Post by zbuc »

jaysonelliot wrote: post #11
blurbytree wrote: post #8

No. But I think people should make up their own minds. The process of whipping up an internet hate mob with the aim of destroying / etc is one of the parts of the internet I detest the most. It's ugly bullying. It rarely concerns itself with facts, just how big the internet hate mob can grow to and whether they can succeed at destroying their chosen enemy.

So, despite the fact that GoDaddy helped write SOPA, never officially withdrew their support from SOPA, and even has special exemptions written into SOPA for themselves, it's a hate mob?

> has special exemptions written into SOPA for themselves Source? I've been seeing that posted a lot today but haven't heard anything about that.

Re: Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?

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Post by zbuc »

blurbytree wrote: post #94
kermitthehermit wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What they're getting is well deserved. If I go out and do bad things, I go to jail, people will hate me / dislike me and wish that I stay in jail for a long time because I'm a criminal. Why should people & companies who threaten important civil rights and liberties be treated differently? It's not OK to do crimes which affect 1-100 persons, but it's OK to affect the basic civil liberties & free speech of hundreds of…

There's a thing called due process. There's law.

And it's legal to boycott someone!!!

Re: Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?

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Post by brlewis »

fredleblanc wrote: post #91

I'm still at GoDaddy, and I would like to leave, but I'm still doing research where I jump to. I'd rather not have to do this again for a long time, so I'm taking my time to make sure I get it right rather than jump on the first company that waves an anti-SOPA flag. So "no" for today, but "most likely" in the near future.

Transferring may be less painful than you think. I'm doing it with zero downtime because my DNS is at Linode, not godaddy. If namecheap turns out not to be the place I want to permanently keep my domains, transfer out will be painless too.

Do it and I promise a high five at the next Salem build guild.

If your DNS is at godaddy see http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/...

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