SOPA and GoDaddy
 

Hopefully by now you have heard about SOPA. The governments attempt to create a law allowing big media to censor parts of the Internet they don't like.

Which as far as anyone can tell is pretty much any website that allows user generated content. That of course includes the LoT. Google, Facebook and a host of others have voiced opposition to SOPA

But while opposition to SOPA is strong it also has it's supporters. An important protest against one of these companies is coming up December 29th. Leave GoDaddy Day. Which has been prompted by the vocal support of SOPA by the CEO of the domain registration company Godaddy.com. While he has since recounted under duress it's clear the companies interest still lies with big media.

I would urge anyone with any domains registered with GoDaddy to participate and switch on Dec 29th. Here is a handy how to leave GoDaddy guide from Lifehacker.com

I've always just boycotted GoDaddy solely on the basis of stupid commercials.

Wil Wheaton has been Tweeting about it quite a bit and has a lot of good links in his feed. Apparently, GoDaddy helped write the bill.

And it just keeps getting better....

GoDaddy May Be Delaying Domain Transfers On Purpose

Namecheap wasn't completely forthcoming in that story, but Godaddy is a shady outfit.

I wonder of LoT will switch away from away from Go Daddy?

Me too

Wow.

Looks like this **** is about to get real.

Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc... are hinting at a "nuclear option"

I'm normally not a sensitive soul to this sort of thing, but I really don't like metaphors like "the nuclear option" for stuff that is NOWHERE near as terrifying as nuclear war. It would be a big bucket of suck, indeed; but not at all like being incinerated.

What's lame is that they haven't done this before. I hope they do get serious about this.