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Why is everyone so cynical around here? Even if the guy is from PR, which I doubt, his story checks out. I know we all pride ourselves on being smarter than the
by billpatrianakos 15y ago
Why is everyone so cynical around here? Even if the guy is from PR, which I doubt, his story checks out. I know we all pride ourselves on being smarter than the rest around here but I think popular opinion is wrong on this one. The backlash against them for supporting SOPA seems to have put blinders on us all. Their support was wrong and when they took it back it wasn't very convincing. But they really didn't help write the bill. After they came out supporting SOPA the media grabbed on to the narrative we helped create and now all the stories are focused on them which is leading to a lot of this misinformation we're taking as truth. What's worse is that our anger towards them for supporting the bill won't allow us to see past the hype, realize that yeah, all registrars are exempt, and no, they didn't help write the bill.
I know these facts cannot and never will be excusable but I think we need to start putting this into perspective. Okay, GoDaddy are assholes, let's not support them but let's also quit obsessing over them and get back to SOPA itself. I don't think there's anything else we can discuss about GoDaddy that will help defeat SOPA. Why not focus on what the committee is doing now because I promise GoDaddy isn't the secret hand behind it all and watching them isn't going to help us one bit.
- cdcarter 15y agoWhy is everyone so cynical around here? Because they think that PR is evil and deliberate and not just a part of day to day life. PR encompasses everything a company does publicly, not just spinning bad situations.
- yuhong 15y agoIMO, top-down control of the message is just fundamentally flawed nowadays. Moving away from it would go a long way toward allowing non-anonymous AMAs.