Redditors pledging to donate thousands to Wikimedia if they dump GoDaddy

Simple as that.

This was a good excuse to get the hell off of godaddy.

Consistency is good, especially when it's applied towards geek-centric companies that can be immediately impacted. GoDaddy's about-face here was more or less within 24 hours of being put in the crosshairs. Their capitulation sends a very strong message that they didn't think it was financially worth it to consider to support SOPA - because if the boycott wasn't having any impact, why would they change their tune? Other companies will take a look at that and realize that if the largest registrar in the world can be pressured through consumer action to pull a full 180 in under 24 hours, that it's going to be risky to support SOPA.

Any way you slice it, this is a significant win for SOPA opponents. It's a battle won, not the war, but it's a win nonetheless.

D-Z take out C.

B has a better chance.

That's a funny thing to say, because so far I've seen nothing but unequivocal disagreement with the bill from everyone who isn't a corporate shill.

Granted, this might be confirmation bias, and the reasons for disagreement are indeed quite widespread, but I've yet to see someone support this bill for any reason but "I'm involved with an industry or corporation that will profit from this bill" or "I am paid to support it".

tl;dr: Either you're against SOPA, or you're part of the group that profits from it, to the detriment of everyone else.

Interesting take-aways from this: they were involved in creating the bill, have been involved with a strange trademark lawsuit where domains are continually being added to the case and transferred to GoDaddy[1], and they've removed their blog posts supporting the bill.

This is probably not what they wanted to see on their year-end numbers. And they just had that really expensive party that made the local news, too.

[1] http://blogs.findlaw.com/decided/2011/12/fed-judge-orders-go...

There are ways of manipulating stock prices, but they're generally illegal and short-selling isn't really one of them.

I still say people should withdraw their domains from GoDaddy regardless of their stance on SOPA. It's bad enough that they already did support it, but other entities who do support it need to realize that people won't put up with this kind of crap.

Only by attacking both at the same time can you hope to get the best of the situation. Lessing refers to this as ignoring the branches, and concentrating on the root instead. In this case, it's the system of private campaign finance that connects both parties.