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Go Daddy feels the squeeze, drops support for SOPA

article published on 23 December, 2011

Just a day after it was revealed as 1 of the 120 formal supporters of SOPA, Go Daddy has pulled its support from the draconian bill. The turning point for Go Daddy, which sells domain names, seems to be when Ben Huh, CEO of the Cheezburger networks said he would pull all 1000 of his domains from Go Daddy unless they dropped support for the "free Web cancer that is SOPA." Cheezburger ... [ read the full article ]

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23. December 2011 @ 17:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Gawdamn right!

Pirates & liberators... Criminals & thieves... Republic & rebels...

Funny how those titles always seem to befit those individuals by whom the history books are written.

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23. December 2011 @ 17:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Get your hands off of our DNS you dirty ape!

Oh, Im sorry... Did the middle of my sentence interrupt the beginning of yours?
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23. December 2011 @ 23:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
1 down, 119 to go...


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24. December 2011 @ 03:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
wonder how many customers they've lost to hostmonster and namecheap in just one day.
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24. December 2011 @ 07:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I wonder how many artists were lost by the Independent Film & Television Alliance, the Graphic Artists Guild, and the National Songwriters Association...all of these groups draw their power from the upstarts that SOPA would be used to attack.


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24. December 2011 @ 21:09 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
You know what would be the funniest twist - if these 120 supporters began to withdraw support in large numbers as a result of the squeeze of their customers. That would sure show that people don't want this passed...
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