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Comment by statictype | Hacker News Reader

Can't we get all this GoDaddy hysteria off of HN? Isn't there a /r/sopa this can go to instead?

I don't think this site was supposed to be about the latest breaking he-said/she-said drama - even if it is of marginal interest to hackers.

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If SOPA passes, a hefty chunk of this site's readership will be out of a career. I think that's weighty enough to bear the noise.

while another chunk will enjoy finer careers and greater profits? Is that really the reason why all this noise is being made? Shouldn't we oppose it as a matter of principle rather than because our careers are on the line?

How is the NameCheap/GoDaddy drama going to change SOPA? Does anyone think that GoDaddy has enough weight to actually affect the outcome? And even if they did how does this drama constitute news about SOPA? We all new people are leaving GoDaddy en masse and many are going to NameCheap. Everything else being posted are meaningless details.

a) If this noise is actually going to help educate people on what this law could potentially do (and therefore prevent it from becoming reality), then you might be right.

b) This isn't even about SOPA anymore. It's about a shitty registrar and their shitty business practices.

It's more than that, it's customers standing up to a company that is investing in tyranny and censorship. Look up godaddy in google news and you will see this movement gaining SOPA more publicity than anything else.

This particular story is not about SOPA, it's about one company attacking another company for their business. This is a PR bonanza for Namecheap and they are going to ride it for as long as they can.

I wrestled with the idea of not posting the OP for a minute but I figured that it should have a spot on HN because it was of user experience interest and also sheds a little more light on the effects that stirring a beehive can have.

Biz decisions that begin on shaky policies affect many. Start ups are seeing once again the mess that quickly forms from taking a bad stand and then mishandling the aftermath.

The Namecheap response was careful and not added to the original blog perhaps in an effort to stop the tit for tat responses. It was relegated to a comment.

I appologize if I was adding to the drama but then again a little drama is sometimes interesting even for HN readers.

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