No GoDaddy for Me...

I've intimated in the past that I intend to eventually move my site to a place that will have all the bells and whistles I need. GoDaddy.com has really been the only place I've considered because… well, they're really the only ones I know of. But now that I've found out about this SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) thing going before the legislature and GoDaddy's support of it (which has since been renounced) I'm not sure where else I should look.

At first, I wondered why anyone would be for online piracy, but once I read what the bill intended to do—holding websites like Facebook and Youtube accountable for pirated material being uploaded to their sites, it reminds me of a law I don't think is fair in its feasible application. There's a federal law that allows your property to be seized if it's used in an illegal activity. What that means is, if you let your buddy drive your car and he gets pulled over and is found with drugs on him your car can be seized and not returned to you even if you didn't have anything to do with the drugs.

SOPA would essentially be like this. It isn't reasonable to expect Youtube to know that any particular video was uploaded without the uploader having the requisite rights to that video. But the government seems intent on policing the internet someway somehow and it's really only a matter of what form of encroachment it will eventually be.

But let's stop this one at least.

In the meantime, I won't be going to GoDaddy for my domain. I know they've reversed their position, but it's more symbolic of my being against this legislation than against the company itself. I may be convinced at a later date to migrate there, but not right now.