Our leadership is terrified. People have finally figured out that the internet is not just for stupid cat videos and watching porn. It's actually a way to extend the voice and influence of common people. Its our media, we control it, and our leaders could not be more terrified. We all have to keep the pressure on. Any leader or corporation that supports SOPA or any bill that compromises a free internet has to know that there will be hell to pay.
There are already laws in place to punish internet pirates through litigation. Everyone knows SOPA has more to do with quelling a revolution than stopping online piracy. 2011 will go down as the year that the internet returned power to the people.
SOPA, is actually a government spy/sedition suppression measure. Because everyone knows u can get around a block using a simple proxy. and in other news DAMN GOVERNMENT GETIN IN MIAH INTERNETZ
Sounds like too little, too late. Their initial glib reply to the boycott was the nail in the coffin. They have customer service reps calling up now-former customers in a panic trying to win them back.
Bunch of insincere cowards. This is insulting to their (former) customers. Considering how bad Netflix apparently suffered from something as insignificant as their service changes earlier this year I hope this comes close to running GoDaddy into the ground as an example for other companies who support SOPA.
"So SOPA is back to having "0" support from the industry it is making a law for. Makes me smile. "
Me too - and here I thought I was going to have to find a new site host. ;( Happy they did an about-face.
You should move your stuff anyway. Face it, Thrax is right on this one, they only dropped their public support for SOPA as a PR move. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out they're still supporting it through back channel measures. People need to continue to dump them as a warning to all the other would-be GoDaddy's out there: You screw with the Internet, you will pay the price, even if you do a half-hearted about face after all your customers get pissed.
I can't find the article anymore but when reading up on this I found that GoDaddy was involved in writing this bill in the first place, not simply supporting something others proposed, and that their CEO hasn't gone on official record as opposing it. They only did this to try and win over people like you Straight_Man. Don't buy into this. Besides, there are plenty of other providers who offer better hosting deals than GoDaddy regardless of any of this SOPA nonsense.
There are also hosting providers who don't have utterly offensive advertising, have a control panel that doesn't suck and don't try to constantly upsell you every time you so much as glance sidelong at them.
Dotster since 1999, and perfectly happy with them for all these years.
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Straight_ManGeeky, in my own wayNaples, FLIcrontian
Well, I chose another hosting company than GoDaddy, site is uploaded and DNS revision is propagating. 2-48 hours time, depending on where folks are in the world.
Straight_ManGeeky, in my own wayNaples, FLIcrontian
Yes, Go Daddy sent me a 25% off hosting offer after I changed hosting accounts to iPage. Too little, too late, Go Daddy. Looks like LOTS of people went elsewhere, hurting them in return for thier real dumb stunt (SOPA involvement).
I use GoDaddy solely for their registrations because they were the cheapest I could find the last I researched it. Is there a service any of ya can recommend that you can get a year for less than $8?
I use GoDaddy solely for their registrations because they were the cheapest I could find the last I researched it. Is there a service any of ya can recommend that you can get a year for less than $8?
thanks for any recommendations
I moved all my stuff earlier this year to domain.com. They run really good sales from time to time (such as $3.99 for a .com now through Dec 28th). I think their non-coupon prices are a bit higher (around $10/yr.), but that's still not expensive enough to outweigh the time I would spend finding another provider and moving my domains again.
I got a long-winded email from my hosting provider (1and1) today about how they oppose SOPA and always have. I wonder if other providers have been fielding a lot of inquiries about their stance on SOPA since the GoDaddy debacle.
I for one could never understand how GoDaddy could support SOPA when the bill has the potential to shred their entire base of customers. Then again,I could never understand how congress came up with a bill that has language so vague and outright stupid that it runs the risk of actually being able to have the subdomains of websites for members of congress shutdown for copyright infringement.
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There are already laws in place to punish internet pirates through litigation. Everyone knows SOPA has more to do with quelling a revolution than stopping online piracy. 2011 will go down as the year that the internet returned power to the people.
and in other news
DAMN GOVERNMENT GETIN IN MIAH INTERNETZ
Me too - and here I thought I was going to have to find a new site host. ;( Happy they did an about-face.
I can't find the article anymore but when reading up on this I found that GoDaddy was involved in writing this bill in the first place, not simply supporting something others proposed, and that their CEO hasn't gone on official record as opposing it. They only did this to try and win over people like you Straight_Man. Don't buy into this. Besides, there are plenty of other providers who offer better hosting deals than GoDaddy regardless of any of this SOPA nonsense.
The reason is supermodels....need I say more
thanks for any recommendations
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"XMASJOY" (not sure) or "SOPASucks" ($6.99 transfers) or "BYEBYEGD" (donation to "Save The Elephants")