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This is really very cut and dry: GoDaddy's terms of service prohibit use of their services for harvesting PII without express consent from the person whose PII

This is really very cut and dry: GoDaddy's terms of service prohibit use of their services for harvesting PII without express consent from the person whose PII is being collected. The anti-abortion activists' site openly invites the public to doxx 3rd parties, and hence violates the policy. The anti-abortion site is not functionally that dissimilar from something like a site that allows doxxing ex-romatic partners or the like, and both represent low-value forms of distasteful speech that frankly, no private service provider ought to be obliged to faciliate. While GoDaddy could be politically or morally motivated here, this just seems like a fair application of the policy.

scarmig 5y ago
dontdatehimgirl.com is a website that indeed lets women dox exes, and its DNS provider is... GoDaddy. ETA: I agree that that TOS provision is good and should be enforced, but it's no coincidence who gets the hammer for violating it.
- sithadmin 5y ago
  The anti-abortion site is getting traffic, press coverage and activist attention in ways the site you mentioned (probably) doesn't. 'The nail that sticks out gets hammered down'. Even if the fairness in terms of TOS accountability here is in practice unfair, I think leaving issues to bubble up organically rather than implementing some sort of heavy-handed machine moderation/content monitor system (looking at you, YouTube) is probably preferable.
- France_is_bacon 5y ago
  It is impossible to monitor millions of websites, so I'm sure GoDaddy relies on people reporting the situation to them. Report dontdatehimgirl.com and see what happens. Post your results on here.
- 93po 5y ago
  It looks like the site you linked doesn't do that anymore. It's just a marketing site for a book as far as I can tell
  - TheParkShark 5y ago
    It says secret forum on the side. Did you make an account and go browse in there or did you just look at the front page for a few seconds?
    - 93po 5y ago
      clearly the latter, haha

scarmig 5y ago

dontdatehimgirl.com is a website that indeed lets women dox exes, and its DNS provider is... GoDaddy. ETA: I agree that that TOS provision is good and should be enforced, but it's no coincidence who gets the hammer for violating it.

sithadmin 5y ago
The anti-abortion site is getting traffic, press coverage and activist attention in ways the site you mentioned (probably) doesn't. 'The nail that sticks out gets hammered down'. Even if the fairness in terms of TOS accountability here is in practice unfair, I think leaving issues to bubble up organically rather than implementing some sort of heavy-handed machine moderation/content monitor system (looking at you, YouTube) is probably preferable.
France_is_bacon 5y ago
It is impossible to monitor millions of websites, so I'm sure GoDaddy relies on people reporting the situation to them. Report dontdatehimgirl.com and see what happens. Post your results on here.
93po 5y ago
It looks like the site you linked doesn't do that anymore. It's just a marketing site for a book as far as I can tell
- TheParkShark 5y ago
  It says secret forum on the side. Did you make an account and go browse in there or did you just look at the front page for a few seconds?
  - 93po 5y ago
    clearly the latter, haha