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Go Daddy Reverses Course On SOPA

Posted by Soulskill on from the done-and-done dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Go Daddy has relented in the face of public pressure and will no longer support SOPA. 'Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation—but we can clearly do better,' Warren Adelman, Go Daddy's newly appointed CEO, said." Go Daddy was put under a tremendous amount of pressure from around the internet; a boycott had been organized for Dec. 29th, and several major sites threatened to pull their domains from Go Daddy, including Stack Overflow and I Can Has Cheezburger. The U.S. House Judiciary committee posted a list of companies who support SOPA (PDF).

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  1. New Record? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The story of GoDaddy supporting SOPA is still on /.'s front page, and now this....

    1. Re:New Record? by tqk · · Score: 4, Funny

      The story of GoDaddy supporting SOPA is still on /.'s front page, and now this....

      Funniest thing I've seen in ages. :-)

      From the looks of things, this's just multiplied the Drop GoDaddy boycott by the Steisand Effect.

      Funny as hell. And I thought they'd lost any thinking customers once the elephant shoot hit the headlines.

      Yuk, yuk, yuk, ...

      --
      "Tongue tied and twisted, just an Earth bound misfit ..." -- Pink Floyd.
  2. Re:lolwut? by jd · · Score: 4, Funny

    I maded you a reply, but I ated it.

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    It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
  3. Re:lolwut? by A10Mechanic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, you DO NOT want to piss off the LoLCat people. We take our cats very seriously here. Just sayin.

  4. Re:lolwut? by jd · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I can has renewal money" should be GoDaddy's new motto. Never nom the hand that pets you.

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    It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
  5. Go Daddy is by ancient_kings · · Score: 3, Funny

    this month's internet bitch! Congrats to the GoDaddy executives and Bobbby Peason for being such wussies. You follow quite well in the standard neocon's shoes....

  6. Re:Obligatory by assertation · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry about the cheating wife. Maybe it could have worked if you paid more attention to her and less time shopping around for hosting :)