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:not enough boobies, that's why

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What if it was just some guy with a concealed weapons permit that wanted lunch?

Why should anyone have to get permission to bear arms when it is supposed to be your 2nd amendment right? Besides, we don't have concealed carry in Illinois, although they're trying to pass it.

Or maybe it was an off-duty police officer. Last I checked, off-duty cops carry their weapons.

I'm not sure why I'm responding since it's pretty obvious you only scanned the text, at most. "All on-duty police officers should be in uniform, with their badge displayed proudly, not hiding their real identity in shame like some Nazi brown shirt. And when they take off the uniform, they should take off the gun and become an ordinary citizen like anybody else." A soldier isn't allowed to carry his gun while out of uniform and off-duty, why should a cop?

It's the same with concealed weapons - if they outlaw concealed weapons, only outlaws will have concealed weapons, and the crime rate will increase, since armed criminals could be much more certain that no one would or could resist them.

I'll agree with you there.

Without undercover cops it'd be hard to infiltrate illegal smuggling operations, gangs, and so on, in order to obtain actual solid evidence

You also missed the part where I said victimless crimes shouldn't be crimes at all. Without drug, gambling, and prostitution laws there's no need for the secret police.

You make a mistake if you believe that "undercover" == "Secret Police"

They're police and their identities as police offiucers is secret. Doublespeak is a term from "1984" as well.

Detectives and other officers often wear normal clothes as they go about their duties

IMO they shouldn't. The detectives should wear uniforms just like the traffic cop does. If we were to legalize activities that have no victims, the police wouldn't have to hide their identities, both police and civilians would be safer, and the police would get a lot more respect. If what my grandparents tole me about alcohol prohibition was any indication, the police were considered a joke by most everybody then, and maybe it's just because I'm a geezer but I think lack of respect fo rth epolice is a bad thing.