Salt and Soil

[ December 30, 2011 ]

Nº 3
@ 5:17 pm

Mashable: ‘It’s Time to Cut Go Daddy a Break’

I have a feeling Mashable uses Go Daddy. Todd Wasserman:

… all of us will suffer if entrepreneurs feel that they can’t take unpopular stands from time to time. In their heart of hearts, the people who run Go Daddy may have a different opinion about SOPA than you do, but, at this point, they’re not going to do anything about it, so who really cares? Punishing the company for a thoughtcrime is very 1984.

Who cares? I do. Maybe they won’t do anything about it now, but they eventually will.

If Go Daddy thinks it would be good business to support SOPA, despite the loss of thousands of domain registrations, why wouldn’t they?

Also, its not a thoughtcrime if they act on it.