Reconsider Go-Daddy?

[hallsofvallhalla]

http://news.yahoo.com/december-29-dump- ... 04221.html

Kinda crazy

[Torniquet]

So im guessing GD isnt taking action against/supporting the removal of piracy?

[SpiritWebb]

GD helped write the bill. When they pulled out, they still have a loop hole, that prevents them from getting into trouble involving this proposed law! Its nuts...

What I heard the other day...

[Chris]

If you want to point fingers the simple cause is greed end of story. If you don't like scrooges, simply let them learn the hard way.

[Cayle]

Straight up, this (still potential) law is an abomination.

From GoDaddy's perspective, Lamar Alexander is a sugar daddy. Because it essentially allows content owners (heck, you don't even actually need to be the content owner to trigger it)to have sites blacklisted at the DNS, without due process. Of course, GoDaddy being exempt would mean that people would use them to reduce the risk of this happening. Sweet eh? Its a straight up mafia protection racket. Just because GoDaddy has dropped their public support, does not mean that they've dropped their support, or stand to benefit from this law at the expense of... oh the internet.

So do three things:
1 - If you have anything registered or hosted on GoDaddy, go to a competitor.

2 - If you are American, call your congressman and Senators offices, ask them their stance on this law (SOPA in congress, Protect-IP on the senate) and tell them that this will be a deciding factor for your vote in 2012. Since 41 senators are sponsoring the senate version, there is a good chance that one of your senators is a cosponsor.

3 - Inform all of your friends and family about this law and persuade them to do step 2. Most people are generally clueless about SOPA, but get outraged when they hear the details.

4 - Oh and move quickly.

[Jackolantern]

Not that I am suggesting complacency, but even if it passes, it will be ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Of the dozens and dozens of internet control bills that passed, only a tiny handful have survived the Court, and they make no bones about the fact that they do not support restrictions on the internet. A couple members of the Court feel that because the internet is international that Congress does not have jurisdiction to enforce their laws on it, and most of the rest feel that any regulations of the internet are directly infringing on free speech. And obviously the Supreme Court cares a lot more about the First Amendment than intellectual property rights lol.

I won't go any further than that, or this could become a political discussion quite easily

[hallsofvallhalla]

if people knew have the stuff large companies support they would not have many companies to chose from. Coke sponsored a pagan holiday and parade the same week christians were selling their drinks for a fund raiser. Not that it is bad, just goes to show. You can't fight all battles.

[Jackolantern]

Oh yes, there is some terrible stuff out there that tried to pass. Palladium and the Trusted Computing Act were insane, and basically would have been the end of the free world of the internet and computing. It basically would have ended all software development outside of large companies such as Google, Microsoft, IBM, etc., because it actually would have made computers unable to run code that was not signed by one of those companies !! Luckily they are dead and buried. And then there was the plan between AT&T, Comcast, SBC and several other major ISPs to turn the internet into something that more resembled a cross between cable TV and early 90's AOL, where you would pay $39.99 a month for a plan that included only a handful of major websites, such as Yahoo!, Google, Facebook and YouTube. Then the next plan up included a few more sites, etc., but you would have to pay for every visit to a non-major website. That would have effectively ended the freedom of the internet, because who would pay even $0.25 to go to a website they have never heard of before? The plan was to completely eliminate unlimited broadband internet plans, and turn most sites into "Premium Sites" that you pay per visit. It was utterly ridiculous. I am glad there are people keeping an eye on stuff like this, and I try to spread the word as much as possible.

Oddly enough, I learned about a lot of this stuff from Athene, "The Greatest Paladin in the World", since Athene was just a comedic character he created so he could use massive subscription rates to spread the word about threats to the freedom of the internet. He was actually quite a genius lol.