GoDaddy Silences RateMyCop.com

mikesd81 writes "Wired is running a story about GoDaddy shutting down a police watchdog site called RateMyCop. However, GoDaddy can't seem to give a consistent answer as for why. From the article: 'RateMyCop founder Gino Sesto says he was given no notice of the suspension. When he called GoDaddy, the company told him that he'd been shut down for suspicious activity. When Sesto got a supervisor on the phone, the company changed its story and claimed the site had surpassed its 3 terabyte bandwidth limit, a claim that Sesto says is nonsense. "How can it be overloaded when it only had 80,000 page views today, and 400,000 yesterday?" Sesto says police can post comments as well, and a future version of the site will allow them to authenticate themselves to post rebuttals more prominently. Chief Dyer wants to get legislation passed that would make RateMyCop.com illegal, which, of course, wouldn't pass constitutional muster in any court in America.'"

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Re:where 1984 comes from

[sdedeo]

"Sunlight is the best disinfectant." But it doesn't have to be 100% pure fusion-powered. So perhaps the site is biased, full of cranks, even full of lies -- so are most local governments. If they can't compete against RateMyCop, there is something broken in them: they've lost the public trust, most likely. One nice thing about the post-9/11 security scare is that educated white people are feeling about 1% of the pain from law enforcement that minorities and the poor have been feeling for decades.

Unchristian

[wiredlogic]

Questioning authority is unchristian. That's reason enough for GOD-addy.