GoDaddy has now withdrawn their support of SOPA, or rather clarified it:
Company CEO Warren Adelman said that legislation to fight piracy is important, but that “we can clearly do better… Getting it right is worth the wait.”
This of course is after thousands of customers started transferring their business away from GoDaddy, including monsters like the Cheezburger Network. (I haven’t used GoDaddy in several years, so fortunately I have nothing to transfer.)
Withdrawing support is not enough.
It sounds as though many people are content with GoDaddy’s announcement that they no longer support SOPA. But that’s not enough. They – especially they, as a company that depends on the Internet for business – need to actively oppose SOPA, not just casually “not support it”.
I say, boycotting companies until they withdraw support isn’t enough. We need to boycott them until they put their resources to work opposing this bill that would effectively cripple the Internet.
No matter what they say, GoDaddy hasn’t reversed their position until they do so in front of Congress and publicly withdraw their letter of support from the judiciary committee hearings.
There are already companies who have come out publicly against SOPA. A list of companies that currently support SOPA is also available, and it’s sad to see how many there are.
Keep up the boycotts, keep letting companies know that supporting this bill is unacceptable. Consumers have the power, we just don’t fully realize it yet.