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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.'"
who's a rat? site
i forget the name, slashdot had an story abouth it here awhile back. that site that kept track of snitches and federal witnesses that also got shut down
that site and this ratemycop site is not in any way an empowerment of the common man, it is an empowerment of the kind of constantly cranky loser you find in every small town, and it gives voice to the criminal element too: tracking cops, slandering cops, etc. it is not a control method over bad cops, it is a tool for slander and unfound rumor. it's a way fo rinternet trolls to spread lies
the truth is, you have control over your cops: via your government. yes, there are those alientated from their government. for many reasons. many of those reason being the crank's own bad ideas and bad social skills. but if a cop is genuinely bad, the government will get rid of him or her eventually, through regular channels, as regular people sound off about any mistreatment the cop makes
not through this site
so yes, close the site down. sure you can say godaddy may not have closed the site down in the most proper procedue, but the site should definitely be closed down, if you have any understanding of ethics
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Free speech is absolute. People like you will not like the revolution when it eventually decides to exist, infact people like you will probably be what the revolution is fighting against.
Oh and, PS, women's rights is bad too. (Anti-men's freedom.)
Go to hell.
Oh my god - could we quit it with the 1984, government taking over the world bullshit. This isn't the government, and it isn't even vaguely associated with the government. It was the choice of GoDaddy to shut this site down, which as I understand it, I'm sure they have the right to shut down any site they want. Speaking for experience, there's only two kinds of cops, bad ones and everyone else. This is the sad state of affairs, that most cops will recieve bad ratings from people who are willfully and knowledgably breaking the law. And of course, everyone wants to paint them as the enemy, most of them are honest and do their jobs to the best of their ability. Coming from someone who knows, I really find most of this flamewar over the issue offensive, and quite frankly, i'm glad this site was shut down.