One should resist the urge to say “yeah but they’re still awful people” unless one is willing to bring the same passion to everyone else on the list of supporters.
Again: correct outcome and for the right reasons.
I'm happy to forget about them for a while longer.
I’m simply pointing out that (perhaps) outcomes matter a bit more than our indignant feelings.
Read what they wrote:
Go Daddy is no longer supporting SOPA, the "Stop Online Piracy Act" currently working its way through U.S. Congress.
"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," Warren Adelman, Go Daddy's newly appointed CEO, said. "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."
They are explicitly just backing off on this specific bill with the intent to do it "better" in the future.
GoDaddy sounds to me like they're reaffirming their support of the principle of DNS-based censorship and the domain seizure practices they currently participate in.
It's naive to believe anything else.
Let’s focus on behaviors and incentives. Leaving in droves seems to have led to behavior we prefer. What to conclude?
Money is the only incentive they need, and the only one they follow. A big company is all about maximizing profits at every turn.
What to conclude? -Nothing. GoDaddy is still just as full of shit as it was before today, and will continue shafting its customers and corrupting your government.
GoDaddy's problem was that people who manage Internet domains tend to be technical folks, aware of SOPA and against it. As a result of this combination, there were actual consequences to supporting SOPA. It just happens to be easy enough to protest by moving your domains away, so lots of people did.
This was purely an exercise in damage control, not an indication of anything actually changing at GoDaddy.