Like most things, I assume it's more about money than ideology GoDaddy is a big corporation employing an army of lawyers who can't be happy about the potential

Like most things, I assume it's more about money than ideology GoDaddy is a big corporation employing an army of lawyers who can't be happy about the potential liability of enabling risky services like Gab. When Gab is inevitably sued for negligence or whatever else is coming, they'll just poof and be gone, and the big fish with deep pockets like GoDaddy don't want to be left holding the bag.