Due to boycott by many of its customers, GoDaddy has dropped its support for SOPA(Stop Online Piracy Act). GoDaddy was criticized a lot on social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter because of its decision to support SOPA. And as a result, customers started shifting to other domain providers which forced the domain giant to change its decision. Official website of GoDaddy stated,”Go Daddy is no longer supporting SOPA, the “Stop Online Piracy Act” currently working its way through U.S. Congress. Go Daddy has always fought to preserve the intellectual property rights of third parties, and will continue to do so in the future.”
Warren Adelman, Go Daddy’s newly appointed CEO, said, “Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation – but we can clearly do better.” He further added that,”It’s very important that all Internet stakeholders work together on this. Getting it right is worth the wait. Go Daddy will support it when and if the Internet community supports it.”
In our opinion, GoDaddy is trying to be neutral. This is evident from the above statement of it Chief Executive Officer as well as from the fact that GoDaddy and its general counsel have worked with federal lawmakers for months to help craft revisions to legislation first introduced some three years ago, according to its official website.
Christine Jones, the general counsel of GoDaddy said,”"Go Daddy has always fought to preserve the intellectual property rights of third parties, and will continue to do so in the future.” Here again, she doesn’t show either any support of SOPA nor she condemns it.
GoDaddy is playing a fail-safe game in our opinion. On one side, it is saying that it has dropped its support for SOPA and on the other side, it has published that its general counsel was working with government for months on SOPA.
And funnily, some users reported that GoDaddy was displaying signs like ‘SOPS Sucks’ on its website.
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