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Mandatory disclaimer: I’m very pro-choice. This feels like an action that will make GoDaddy popular on the left, but again is murky territory when it domes to

Mandatory disclaimer: I’m very pro-choice. This feels like an action that will make GoDaddy popular on the left, but again is murky territory when it domes to publisher vs platform. It looks like GoDaddy isn’t even using their own policy correctly, as the pro-life site isn’t collecting private information, it’s just encouraging people to report via the official government sites. I miss the old days of hosting providers being neutral and just hosting material and removing illegal content after contact by the appropriate authorities. Activist corporations may be popular when they advocate for causes we like, but make it difficult to know what they do allow. In this case the pro-life organisation, while they are jerks, are just advocating a cause GoDaddy disagrees with without actually violating a policy - while begs the question, what other political causes will GoDaddy ban you for supporting?

eklbt 5y ago
I always find it funny when I see the same people complain about companies lobbying for legislation and then cheer on this behavior.
- dane-pgp 5y ago
  Surely you can see the difference between a company trying to change legislation and a company choosing its customers? Even if you think that corporations should be allowed to influence legislation just as its individual employees can (if they are citizens), it's much easier to boycott a company whose policies you don't like than to boycott the laws of a government you don't like. (In case the downvoters are incorrectly inferring my opinion on these matters, I should say that I'm not trying to make an argument in support of either corporate lobbying or corporate censorship).
  - moralestapia 5y ago
    >a company choosing its customers ??? But they literally just banned one of them ...
    - perl4ever 5y ago
      "Banning" a customer is a way of saying "choosing" only possibly implying a monopoly, right? Of course, they don't have a monopoly, so "choosing" seems like a better word to me.
godshatter 5y ago
> are just advocating a cause GoDaddy disagrees with without actually violating a policy For all we know they may not even disagree with it and can just see which way the wind is blowing. Which would be even worse, if true.
_-david-_ 5y ago
>what other political causes will GoDaddy ban you for supporting? They already kicked off some progun website.

eklbt 5y ago

I always find it funny when I see the same people complain about companies lobbying for legislation and then cheer on this behavior.

dane-pgp 5y ago
Surely you can see the difference between a company trying to change legislation and a company choosing its customers? Even if you think that corporations should be allowed to influence legislation just as its individual employees can (if they are citizens), it's much easier to boycott a company whose policies you don't like than to boycott the laws of a government you don't like. (In case the downvoters are incorrectly inferring my opinion on these matters, I should say that I'm not trying to make an argument in support of either corporate lobbying or corporate censorship).
- moralestapia 5y ago
  >a company choosing its customers ??? But they literally just banned one of them ...
  - perl4ever 5y ago
    "Banning" a customer is a way of saying "choosing" only possibly implying a monopoly, right? Of course, they don't have a monopoly, so "choosing" seems like a better word to me.

godshatter 5y ago

> are just advocating a cause GoDaddy disagrees with without actually violating a policy For all we know they may not even disagree with it and can just see which way the wind is blowing. Which would be even worse, if true.

_-david-_ 5y ago

>what other political causes will GoDaddy ban you for supporting? They already kicked off some progun website.