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I find it hard to believe that the Commander of US Forces in Afghanistan and the President of the United States would both criticize this church in public, yet
by lkrubner 16y ago
I find it hard to believe that the Commander of US Forces in Afghanistan and the President of the United States would both criticize this church in public, yet neither would think to pick up a phone and call Rackspace. I am assuming that a year or 2 from now we will learn that Rackspace did receive a call from some branch of government. I can believe that the call was perhaps informal in nature. Perhaps an old friend, now in government, called an old friend who works at Rackspace. Perhaps they had a friendly chat. I'm suddenly curious if anyone in Rackspace management spent any time in the military. If so, it becomes easy to imagine how such informal contacts might be made.
And, then, I wonder if any part of the Federal government is a customer of Rackspace?
I say all this simply because it seems unlikely that the the Commander of US Forces in Afghanistan and the President of the United States would both focus their attention on this church, and describe their planned event as being a danger to the troops, and yet they didn't think to call Rackspace? Shutting down the website seems like an obvious pressure point, though, of course, not an especially powerful one.
- gojomo 16y agoRackspace is headquartered in San Antonio, 'Military City USA'. But for now this takedown will only give the church more attention -- it's the news hook for another cycle of coverage. So I think this is a matter of Rackspace covering their own ass, not doing a favor for anyone who truly wanted to squelch the church -- because the suspension doesn't even effectively serve that purpose.