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Imgur.com: Why We Dumped GoDaddy

Posted by samzenpus on from the it's-not-me-it's-you dept.

Velcroman1 writes "On the eve of what has been dubbed "Dump Go Daddy Day," imgur.com — the massive image hosting site responsible for an astonishing 28 terabytes of bandwidth and nearly 200 million page views per day — has already changed its registry entries, foreshadowing the potential negative effect of a boycott set to begin Thursday morning. GoDaddy.com originally supported the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) but quickly recanted its position when the call for a boycott circulated. 'The outcry kind of forced our hand,' imgur founder and owner Alan Schaaf said. 'I'm against the SOPA act and imgur as a company is against it. We just feel it is terrible that GoDaddy.com would support this legislation.'"

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  1. Yea, well... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny

    GoDaddy.com originally supported the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) but quickly recanted its position when the call of a boycott circulated.

    Nothing like money-at-stake to reveal whether someone has a spine.

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    1. Re:Yea, well... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 3, Funny

      It's like walking in on your best friend banging your wife, he looks up and says, "sorry, dude. I'm almost finished." then continues until done.

      In an old shaggy-dog joke, King Arthur goes on a long rant at the queen for her lack of fidelity, and then says:

      "And as for you, Sir Lancelot, the least you could do is stop while I'm talking."

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  2. Re:Left GoDaddy Years Ago by Elbereth · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's human nature. If someone screws over a customer, a few outraged people will leave, but many others will stay, because the company never did anything to them. A couple on the sidelines will be wondering, "What the fuck is wrong with you? Right from the start, I could tell that company was slimy." And someone, somewhere will say, "It was his/her own fault for getting screwed. The company was perfectly justified in doing what it did. They're not a charity."

    As a smug asshole who loves to be right, this whole drama has been very fun. Not that I need the validation of the entire fucking internet coming around to my opinion or anything, but it's still nifty.

  3. But.. by andrewa · · Score: 5, Funny

    Boobies!
    http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1633.html

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  4. Re:Who dumped whom? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's SuperBowl, is it an American thing?

  5. Re:Who dumped whom? by mdm42 · · Score: 5, Funny

    MacWho?

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  6. I'm actually glad that I hosted with them by cptBongo · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...so I get the satisfaction of dumping them now.

  7. One problem its who GoDaddy's customers are. by robbak · · Score: 4, Funny

    I mean, how do we get lowlife scum like typo-squatters to boycott? Who else would tolerate them?

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