GoDaddy официально поддерживает SOPA

GoDaddy supports SOPA.

If you didn't move because of the elephant thing...
Just in case you've bene living under a rock, SOPA ("Stop Online Piracy Act") is a bill in America that could potentially be signed into law soon. This bill states that, when private party determines, in good faith, that a website is infringing on their content, they can force that website to be blocked in America. Just like China. And Iran. Only, the extra sugar on top is that the people making this legislation have no effing CLUE how the internet works, and so a lot of people worldwide could be impacted by this. On the surface, it's to shut down any site that has anything to do with piracy, or any site on which any copyrighted work is found. Which means not only sites like AppTrackr or What.cd or TPB, but also YouTube, or any site that links to a site with copyrighted work, or anyone who posts a video with a song playing in the background that they didn't write themselves. And that's only where it starts -- it's only a matter of time until this is used for full-on political censorship.

Understandably, most folks are pissed. But, since such a large percentage of our representatives have been bought and paid for by large corporations, it's looking like this could potentially go through the system and become law. What the fuck.

So obviously, everyone who has anything to do with the internet hates this, right? Well, GoDaddy released a statement in full support of SOPA, and will be urging Congress to pass the bill: http://www.thedomains.com/2011/11/15/here-is-godaddys-statement-in-support-of-the-stop-online-privacy-act-house-hearing-tomorrow/

There's a Reddit thread right now, rallying everyone to move their domains and such. Small chance here that it's someone from Namecheap trying to get a lot of new transfers, but even in the unlikely chance that's true, they're still better: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nmnie/godaddy_supports_sopa_im_transferring_51_domains/

And this is Namecheap's CEO being pissed at SOPA: https://twitter.com/#!/Namecheap/status/149596940093493249

If that pisses you off enough to move (I'll be doing it myself once I get some consecutive hours at my computer), follow the Reddit thread as folks are sharing some good coupon codes. Only 9 of my domains are GoDaddy domains, but they'll be gone soon. I've also canceled my dedicated server with them.

http://webdevrefinery.com/forums/topic/10459-godaddy-supports-sopa/