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mcabral | 14 years ago

Go Daddy has already backtracked on their support of SOPA.

To answer your question directly - probably not. Unless your site caters to developers and other technically-inclined people, you probably won't be hurt by using Go Daddy. At least not directly.

There is a reason why so many people are angry about SOPA. Under the bill's current language, SOPA will cause more problems than it claims to solve. I will leave it to you to do some research on the language in the bill, but to summarize; SOPA will break DNS. SOPA will have chilling effects on freedom of speech on the web in the United States, and possibly abroad. It will put an unnecessary burden on small businesses and startups by forcing these companies to strictly police user generated content. Piracy is obviously a real problem that hurts developers, artists, and many others. But by and large, the tech community doesn't think that SOPA is a good way of dealing with the issue of piracy.

Go Daddy threw their support behind this bill, which will probably end up hurting most of their customers in some way. They were arrogant about it too, in that they basically brushed off the boycott as being a nonissue to them. Obviously, they changed their minds after people started transferring domains en masse.

If you have no qualms with supporting a company that doesn't care about keeping the web a level playing field for small and large business, then keep on using their services. Personally, I transferred my domain over as soon as I found out they supported the bill.

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