You would have to prove that you were denied service based on membership in a protected class.
In your example, complaining about one's workplace (a hosting agency) causing your site to be removed from being hosted by that agency is not, legally speaking, discrimination. That is, you didn't lose hosting services there because of your race, age, religion, etc.
Now, it's probably a stupid thing for them to do in your example, due to things like the Streisand Effect, but it's not discrimination as laid out in your example.
They are. And if the Daily Stormer can prove that they lost hosting services on GoDaddy due to them being in a protected class, then that would legally be discrimination.
But if they lost it due to violating GoDaddy's Terms of Service, then that's a different kettle of fish.
Actually, when you're a business of public accommodation, you cannot legally discriminate against a protected class. If the bakery had been booked solid and unable to produce the wedding cake in time for the wedding, it wouldn't be discrimination. If it simple wasn't a service they offered, it wouldn't be discrimination.
But by refusing to offer services based on sexual orientation, which is a protected class in Colorado, they violated the law.
Corporations have a long history of opinions on social matters. GoDaddy (finally) decided that they really didn't want any of that site on them any more.
Well, colleges have to pay for those massive stadiums and sportsball coaches somehow, don't they?
Yes, yes, I realize not all colleges do that. But when Texas A&M spends $450 million to renovate their stadium, the University of Oklahoma spends $370 million to do the same, and so one, and so on....
How you voted in the general election is not, to the best of my knowledge, tracked. That you voted (or didn't) is.
But, in many states, they track if you voted in a primary as well, and which one. Because in those states (the state I live in being one of them), you can either vote in the Republican primary or the Democratic primary. And notably, the primaries are not held on the same day.
So, my state would have information that I voted in the Democratic primary in the last election cycle. From that, it can be assumed that if I voted (I did), I probably voted Democratic. (The percent of people who stink vote during primaries is remarkably small.)
It's an interesting general statement, but a lot of it is going to depend on the people involved. I mean, I'm hardly the most responsible person in the world, and when I've worked from home in the past, I think I actually get less done. Sure, I'm not distracted by other people coming into the programmers' pen (keycard access to even get in to see the programmers here), but there's definitely a lot more in the way of distractions when I'm at home.
That being said, we can't work from home any more except in extreme cases, because one of the managers here got a giant case of the chapped ass when one of the programmers wasn't instantly available for whatever his demand du jour was.
Mind you, if Clinton had won the Presidency and the House and Senate composition was the same as it is now, not only would she not be able to get anything done (because the House and Senate would prevent it), they almost certainly would have continued to have hearings on Benghazi and every other damn thing they could use to continue to make her look bad. (Fine, admittedly, in some regards, she doesn't need any assistance from the Republican party.)
We'd almost certainly have rumblings about impeachment by now, if not submission of articles of impeachment.
But we have Trump, instead. And frankly, with the Republicans in the House and Senate, I'm not sure what, if anything, would make them go forward with impeachment against Trump.
Project Veritas? You mean that group run by James O'Keefe, who doctored the videos that led to ACORN being shut down?
The same James O'Keefe, who, with a couple colleagues) attempted to solicit voter fraud from staffers for multiple Senators? (Those staffers didn't fall for it, and advised the trio that what they were doing was illegal.)
The same James O'Keefe who was charged with entering federal property under false pretenses with the intent of committing a felony at the offices of Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu? (The charges were later reduced to a misdemeanor which O'Keefe and his colleagues pled guilty to.)
Hrm... I don't know, that's not exactly an "engendering a level of trust" sort of guy.
The problem is, this is being seen as a blatant attempt by the Trump administration to purge voter rolls of properly registered voters. Unlike Trump's claim of having won the popular vote, this doesn't come out of thin air.
Kris Kobach, the vice-chair of of the Commission of Election Integrity, tried to purge Kansas' voter rolls of 20,000 properly registered voters. He had to be threatened with Contempt of Court before he put them back on the voter rolls.
Then there's Ken Blackwell, another member of the Commission of Election Integrity. During his tenure as Ohio Secretary of State, his office fucked up TWICE, accidentally releasing private data on millions of Ohio voters, including SSNs.
Then there's Hans von Spakovsky, another member of the commission, who, while at the Justice Department promoted voter ID policies in Georgia that would disproportionately affect African-American voters. He had previously published a law review article supporting that policy under a pseudonym, and should have recused himself from the Justice Department decision. He also tried to inject partisan politics into FEC policy during his short time there. And he's no stranger to making wild claims about voter fraud either, claiming that 1400 votes were illegally cast during the 2008 Minnesota Senate election won by Al Franken. (No evidence of this was found.)
It matters because in Afghanistan, women risk being attacked for daring to get an education. The fact that these young women are a robotics team is an important part of the story.
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They absolutely have the right to express their views.
GoDaddy is under no obligation to give them a forum to do so.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1357/
You would have to prove that you were denied service based on membership in a protected class.
In your example, complaining about one's workplace (a hosting agency) causing your site to be removed from being hosted by that agency is not, legally speaking, discrimination. That is, you didn't lose hosting services there because of your race, age, religion, etc.
Now, it's probably a stupid thing for them to do in your example, due to things like the Streisand Effect, but it's not discrimination as laid out in your example.
They are. And if the Daily Stormer can prove that they lost hosting services on GoDaddy due to them being in a protected class, then that would legally be discrimination.
But if they lost it due to violating GoDaddy's Terms of Service, then that's a different kettle of fish.
Good luck finding a lawyer to take on that case.
Actually, when you're a business of public accommodation, you cannot legally discriminate against a protected class. If the bakery had been booked solid and unable to produce the wedding cake in time for the wedding, it wouldn't be discrimination. If it simple wasn't a service they offered, it wouldn't be discrimination.
But by refusing to offer services based on sexual orientation, which is a protected class in Colorado, they violated the law.
Bollocks.
Corporations have a long history of opinions on social matters. GoDaddy (finally) decided that they really didn't want any of that site on them any more.
This isn't a First Amendment issue.
GoDaddy has the right to toss anyone off of their service for violating their Terms of Service.
And nothing of value was lost.
Didn't it turn out that he really doesn't have a PhD, or did I imagine that?
It seems to work for the Trump administration.
You have to be careful with that though... Scaramucci took the emulated behavior just a smidge too far and well...
I think you're on the wrong article, Betteridge-bro.
Well, Bush the first issued less, but he only had four years. Also, that's probably the limit of "recent history" (for a certain value of recent).
Trump's also on track to spend more money on vacations/golf trips in his first year than Obama spent in eight.
He needs a new set, what with always ordering his steaks well-done.
Well, colleges have to pay for those massive stadiums and sportsball coaches somehow, don't they?
Yes, yes, I realize not all colleges do that. But when Texas A&M spends $450 million to renovate their stadium, the University of Oklahoma spends $370 million to do the same, and so one, and so on....
This administraton _IS_ transparent.
We can see right through them.
You're both right and wrong.
How you voted in the general election is not, to the best of my knowledge, tracked. That you voted (or didn't) is.
But, in many states, they track if you voted in a primary as well, and which one. Because in those states (the state I live in being one of them), you can either vote in the Republican primary or the Democratic primary. And notably, the primaries are not held on the same day.
So, my state would have information that I voted in the Democratic primary in the last election cycle. From that, it can be assumed that if I voted (I did), I probably voted Democratic. (The percent of people who stink vote during primaries is remarkably small.)
It's an interesting general statement, but a lot of it is going to depend on the people involved. I mean, I'm hardly the most responsible person in the world, and when I've worked from home in the past, I think I actually get less done. Sure, I'm not distracted by other people coming into the programmers' pen (keycard access to even get in to see the programmers here), but there's definitely a lot more in the way of distractions when I'm at home.
That being said, we can't work from home any more except in extreme cases, because one of the managers here got a giant case of the chapped ass when one of the programmers wasn't instantly available for whatever his demand du jour was.
Clinton isn't an idiot.
Mind you, if Clinton had won the Presidency and the House and Senate composition was the same as it is now, not only would she not be able to get anything done (because the House and Senate would prevent it), they almost certainly would have continued to have hearings on Benghazi and every other damn thing they could use to continue to make her look bad. (Fine, admittedly, in some regards, she doesn't need any assistance from the Republican party.)
We'd almost certainly have rumblings about impeachment by now, if not submission of articles of impeachment.
But we have Trump, instead. And frankly, with the Republicans in the House and Senate, I'm not sure what, if anything, would make them go forward with impeachment against Trump.
Project Veritas? You mean that group run by James O'Keefe, who doctored the videos that led to ACORN being shut down?
The same James O'Keefe, who, with a couple colleagues) attempted to solicit voter fraud from staffers for multiple Senators? (Those staffers didn't fall for it, and advised the trio that what they were doing was illegal.)
The same James O'Keefe who was charged with entering federal property under false pretenses with the intent of committing a felony at the offices of Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu? (The charges were later reduced to a misdemeanor which O'Keefe and his colleagues pled guilty to.)
Hrm... I don't know, that's not exactly an "engendering a level of trust" sort of guy.
I particularly like Mississippi's response to the commission
Quoted in part: "They can go jump in the Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi is a great State to launch from."
Except that some states cannot legally provide even that. Kansas (where Kobach is the Secretary of State) can't.
The problem is, this is being seen as a blatant attempt by the Trump administration to purge voter rolls of properly registered voters. Unlike Trump's claim of having won the popular vote, this doesn't come out of thin air.
Kris Kobach, the vice-chair of of the Commission of Election Integrity, tried to purge Kansas' voter rolls of 20,000 properly registered voters. He had to be threatened with Contempt of Court before he put them back on the voter rolls.
Then there's Ken Blackwell, another member of the Commission of Election Integrity. During his tenure as Ohio Secretary of State, his office fucked up TWICE, accidentally releasing private data on millions of Ohio voters, including SSNs.
Then there's Hans von Spakovsky, another member of the commission, who, while at the Justice Department promoted voter ID policies in Georgia that would disproportionately affect African-American voters. He had previously published a law review article supporting that policy under a pseudonym, and should have recused himself from the Justice Department decision. He also tried to inject partisan politics into FEC policy during his short time there. And he's no stranger to making wild claims about voter fraud either, claiming that 1400 votes were illegally cast during the 2008 Minnesota Senate election won by Al Franken. (No evidence of this was found.)
Not exactly a stellar cast of characters.
Oh, the horror. Educated young women with interests in STEM fields. How would "Merica" ever survive such a thing?
It matters because in Afghanistan, women risk being attacked for daring to get an education. The fact that these young women are a robotics team is an important part of the story.
Actually, the last time I flew, the company I worked for paid for the tickets, so foremost in my mind was how much I hate flying.