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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.
> "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…
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…
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…
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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?
Occupy!
Occupy The Internet!
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/strange-bedf...
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111115/09233216778/ron-pa...
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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?
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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?
Occupy!
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.