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It's a business, they can refuse who ever they want (same as the cake business). Sure a bunch of people might get angry, but if GoDaddy disagrees with the busin

It's a business, they can refuse who ever they want (same as the cake business). Sure a bunch of people might get angry, but if GoDaddy disagrees with the business, kick them off. It's always been this way, I am not sure why people are caring about it now. GoDaddy has kicked thousands of sites/customers off their platform for a variety of reasons. It's not like GoDaddy is the only option.

adventured 5y ago
> It's a business, they can refuse who ever they want (same as the cake business). No they can't. There are plenty of restrictions on denying service. An obvious example: you can't refuse to serve people based on their race. And since the door is open on disallowing such, a lot of other arguments are made and will be made in regards to who it's ok to not serve. Which is what's going on here with regards to GoDaddy's actions. Since the US is rapidly shifting to a hyper tribal, protected classes system of rule of law (different laws for different people), you can expect the rules/laws pertaining to situations like this in business to get more complex over time.
- verall 5y ago
  > There are plenty of restrictions on denying service. The restriction, is literally, "You cannot refuse service to people in a protected class." The burden of proof is on the person who was refused to show that, beyond a reasonable doubt, the reason that they were refused was due to them being within a protected class. It's not a low bar to clear. It has been this way since the civil rights movement. > Since the US is rapidly shifting to a hyper tribal, protected classes system of rule of law (different laws for different people). You don't have any understanding of the jurisprudence here, this is embarrassing.
- dubcanada 5y ago
  You can and people do it all the time, what you are not allowed to do is say "sorry I can't serve you cause you have a different skin color", but you can certainly say "sadly due to our terms we cannot serve you because we cannot serve people who are born in North Colorado because we get to much fraud from North Colorado". There is tons of ways to "not serve" people. Just try not to be an outright racist and you're fine. A business with a terms of service that you signed always says "Random Business has the right to refuse service for blah blah".

adventured 5y ago

> It's a business, they can refuse who ever they want (same as the cake business). No they can't. There are plenty of restrictions on denying service. An obvious example: you can't refuse to serve people based on their race. And since the door is open on disallowing such, a lot of other arguments are made and will be made in regards to who it's ok to not serve. Which is what's going on here with regards to GoDaddy's actions. Since the US is rapidly shifting to a hyper tribal, protected classes system of rule of law (different laws for different people), you can expect the rules/laws pertaining to situations like this in business to get more complex over time.

verall 5y ago
> There are plenty of restrictions on denying service. The restriction, is literally, "You cannot refuse service to people in a protected class." The burden of proof is on the person who was refused to show that, beyond a reasonable doubt, the reason that they were refused was due to them being within a protected class. It's not a low bar to clear. It has been this way since the civil rights movement. > Since the US is rapidly shifting to a hyper tribal, protected classes system of rule of law (different laws for different people). You don't have any understanding of the jurisprudence here, this is embarrassing.
dubcanada 5y ago
You can and people do it all the time, what you are not allowed to do is say "sorry I can't serve you cause you have a different skin color", but you can certainly say "sadly due to our terms we cannot serve you because we cannot serve people who are born in North Colorado because we get to much fraud from North Colorado". There is tons of ways to "not serve" people. Just try not to be an outright racist and you're fine. A business with a terms of service that you signed always says "Random Business has the right to refuse service for blah blah".