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Rackspace Shuts Down Quran-Burning Church's Sites
theodp writes "In response to a complaint, Rackspace has shut down the websites of the Dove World Outreach Center, a small 50-member church which has received national and international criticism for a planned book burning of the Quran on the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. The center 'violated the hate-speech provision of our acceptable-use policy,' explained Rackspace spokesman Dan Goodgame. 'This is not a constitutional issue. This is a contract issue,' said Goodgame, who added he did not know how long it had hosted the church's sites. Not quite the same thing, but would Kurt Westergaard's cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad also violate Rackspace's AUP? How about Christopher Hitchens' Slate articles? Could articles from one-time Rackspace poster child The Onion pass muster?"
No, but a contract does, which is why they had to use the "hate speech" loophole in their acceptable use policy.
Rackspace has just violated our founding ideals.
It doesn't matter if it is legal.
It doesn't matter if the result is the silencing of even bigger douchebags.
The principle has still been violated in a spectacularly public fashion.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Yes, but the whole point of network neutrality is that free speech laws should apply to ISP's.
Considering some 20% of the US still believes Obama is himself a Muslim (or "Moslem" as this guy prefers), it might be sold as a sequel to this stunt.
Maybe the reason they think he's a muslim is because he's tried to appear that way to muslims
Do you have a source for those actions? When did Obama do something to make himself appear to be Muslim? Just because you sit down for a meeting or a meal with someone of a different faith does not make you automatically a convert to their faith.
while also doing and saying things that make christians think he's not a christian, in spite of what he tells people.
Right now everyone and their dog has their own view of what actions are - or are not - "Christian". And every single person - and their dog - is wrong in at least some aspect when they get to be that specific. There are lots of contradictions in the Christian Bible; many times when various characters in the story do one thing in one book and then something seemingly very different in another one. Hence in order to define what actions are - and are not - "Christian", people have to cherry-pick what they like and discard what they do not; otherwise they would not have a consistent definition.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.