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Crowdsourced List of SOPA Supporters

Fraser Cain writes "GoDaddy listened to reason, and reversed their position on SOPA. Here's a crowdsourced list of every other company supporting SOPA with web address, Twitter feed, contact emails and phone numbers. Perhaps they should be contacted to find out if they still fully support SOPA, or have changed their mind."

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  1. Listened to reason? by blowdart · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Reason? Caved into public humiliation more like. Reason had nothing to do with it, bad publicity, losing customers and losing money was what caused it - and remember GoDaddy had a clause where SOPA wouldn't apply to them anyway.

  2. GoDaddy Still Supports SOPA by classzero · · Score: 5, Interesting

    GoDaddy didn't reverse their position at all. They are still in support of SOPA. Here is the CEO refusing to come out against the bill:
    http://gizmodo.com/5870920/brave-godaddy-ceo-says-hes-neither-for-nor-against-sopa

    1. Re:GoDaddy Still Supports SOPA by rtfa-troll · · Score: 5, Interesting

      100% right. And we can get a good guess where their policy is coming from when we see that Christine Jones has this on her Blog, undersigned in her role as general counsel and corporate secretary of GoDaddy.com

      The debate about the contents of this bill, and its companion bill in the Senate, the PROTECT IP Act, has been heated in recent weeks, as companies within the Internet ecosystem have rallied to lobby against the passage of legislation which might hold us accountable.

      That myopic view has never been shared by Go Daddy.

      The boycott of Go Daddy should not stop until at least Christine has been fired.

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  3. GoDaddy did *not* reverse position by blind+biker · · Score: 5, Informative

    They said they will simply take a less forward stance (less openly pro-SOPA). They definitely did not change course.

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  4. Re:Google Docs? by Spad · · Score: 5, Informative

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmGJz_37ojoqdFZhYlBhN2hQOGRoN2R0ZGh3VDZlblE&pli=1#gid=0

    Whoever posted the article did so with the login as part of the link,

  5. Re:Google Docs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AmGJz_37ojoqdFZhYlBhN2hQOGRoN2R0ZGh3VDZlblE&output=html

    This should be a truly public version of the sheet, read-only though.

  6. Sucks to be an american by wbr1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    (Hopefully this wont get /. a take down notice!)
    Sung to the tune of Lee Greenwood's "Proud to be an American"

    "Sucks to be an American"

    [Verse]
    If tomorrow all my posts were gone I'd created all my life,
    And I had to start again under a lawsuit filled with strife.
    I'd curse my karma to be living here today,
    'Cause congress sold the flag of freedom
    And the corporations took it away.

    [Chorus]
    It sucks to be an American
    Where we have Fox News on TV
    My girl can't sing a cover of Brittney Spears
    Because SOPA's censored she,
    They issued a take down, and sued my family
    For 15 million bucks,
    Cause there ain't no doubt congress sold this land,
    And SOPAs just one way.

    [Verse]
    From the Sony lakes of Minnesota, to the Disney hills of Tennessee
    Across the plais of RCA Texas, from company to company.
    From multinational owned Detroit and Houston and L.A,

    There's fear in every American heart
    And it's time we stand and say:

    [Chorus]
    It sucks to be an American
    Where we have Fox News on TV
    My girl can't sing a cover of Brittney Spears
    Because SOPA's censored she,
    They issued a take down, and sued my family
    For 15 million bucks,
    Cause there ain't no doubt congress sold this land,
    And SOPAs just one way.

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    Silence is a state of mime.
  7. Re:Who gives a fuck? by Moryath · · Score: 5, Insightful

    LOL, this fool thinks this is all about pirated music.

    Sadly, that's what the MafiAA is trying to convince the majority of the public of.

    And that's what the fucking fools in Congress who said things like "We don't need to bring in a bunch of nerds to explain this bill to us" believe too. Well that and they believe in continuing to get MafiAA bribery money^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H"campaign donations."

  8. Re:Wait?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What exactly does the Fraternal Order of Police stand to gain from passage of SOPA exactly??

    Instant removal of sites hosting videos and pictures of police brutality or improper conduct?

  9. Re:Who gives a fuck? by LifesABeach · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I find it unproductive that certain members of congress openly state, "Businesses can and should regulate themselves," and then support SOPA which ignores Constitutional law.

    "Enemy of my enemy is my friend." - Ancient proverb

  10. Re:STOP SOCIALISM AND SUPPORT SOPA! by king+neckbeard · · Score: 5, Funny

    But Jesus was a pirate. He copied that fish and bread. When you ask yourself what Jesus would do, the answer is clearly 'pirate it and share with others.'

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  11. Re:Who gives a fuck? by Jedi+Alec · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Makes perfect sense. Businesses, who as we all know are the epitome of ethics, can be trusted to do the Right Thing(tm). Whereas Joe Q. Public is only one step away from smoking pot, kissing a member of his own sex, downloading Britney Spears and buying a fake Rolex, and needs to be held in line with threats, teargas and the promise of an eternity in hell for his sins.

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