> Let me state the point very concisely and maybe you'll find you actually agree with me: > The GoDaddy stories have become repetitive and unproductive. The st

> Let me state the point very concisely and maybe you'll find you actually agree with me: > The GoDaddy stories have become repetitive and unproductive. The stories have been polluted with misinformation and false assumptions. We've said all there is to say and this is distracting us from stopping this bill from passing. Boycotting them is a great way to protest but let's talk about some other things we can do like we had been doing before the GoDaddy story broke. I somewhat agree. But the reason I was nitpicking is because those details matter. GoDaddy isn't blameless. In fact, while they didn't write specific exemptions for themselves they did tweak it for their own good (undoubtedly). If they merely get spanked a bit they'll be back to business as usual in a few weeks and will continue supporting SOPA even if quietly. If they get put out of business and every employee above janitorial is black-listed unless they specifically renounce SOPA and the GoDaddy leaders then future companies will be less willing to try this and future employees will be more willing to leave instead of trotting out "but then who'd feed my kids?" excuses. That sort of fear might actually change things. In fact, I think we don't stand a chance in hell of stopping SOPA in the big picture. If we do stop this specific bill they'll reintroduce it with a kiddy-porn focus and we'll all be monsters for daring to speak out against it. In the end our only hope is uncensorable technologies because as long as any group is in control of communications technologies they'll find a need to censor and limit them. Fighting SOPA seems to me like as much of a waste of time as fighting GoDaddy does to you. But if we could exact real, lasting, damage to some of its supporters it would be harder for this sort of thing to be done again. > Hasn't the GoDaddy story played itself out? Does the CEO still get paid? If so, no. > What I'm saying is that it seems like we're focusing so narrowly on one SOPA related story and missing the larger picture. Some of us, yes. Others, no. Why don't you stop exhorting others to do what you want, stop contributing to the noise, and go attack the bigger picture in your own way. Then you'd have something to post to HN and you might win supporters away from the GoDaddy hate-fest where you could never chase them away.