If you’re somehow linked to the web hosting service GoDaddy.com, then today’s an interesting day for you, potentially.  Thursday, December 29, is Dump Go Daddy Day, and already websites are leaving GoDaddy.com hosting due to GoDaddy’s controversial support then oppose flip-flop on the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA.  While designed to stop online piracy, SOPA amounts to a censorship of the Internet according to those that oppose the bill, and they believe that stifling the Internet is stifling free speech and would put user-dependent websites like Facebook, YouTube, and the like out of business.

The first company to dump GoDaddy is imgur.com, a user-generated image website that gets millions of hits per day.

“The outcry kind of forced our hand,” admitted imgur founder and owner Alan Schaaf.  “I’m against the SOPA act and imgur as a company is against it.  We just feel it is terrible that GoDaddy.com would support this legislation.  If SOPA were to pass, Imgur would not be able to exist.  We survive on user-generated content.  It would be impossible for us to police the amount of traffic we get for what is or isn’t copyrighted material.  It’s just not possible.”

For the sake of disclosure, I must reveal that this site, and my other sites, are all hosted and served by GoDaddy, and I’ve never had anything but great customer service experiences with them.  That said, I was willing and ready to join in on the boycott until GoDaddy dropped their support of SOPA.  Now that they’ve reversed course, I’m okay with them again and I don’t see the purpose of a boycott continuing AFTER the boycotters got their way.

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