[HN Gopher] GoDaddy boots Texas abortion "whistleblower" site fo...
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       GoDaddy boots Texas abortion "whistleblower" site for violating
       privacy rule
        
       Author : ctoth
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2021-09-03 21:13 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | legostormtroopr wrote:
       | Mandatory disclaimer: I'm very pro-choice.
       | 
       | This feels like an action that will make GoDaddy popular on the
       | left, but again is murky territory when it domes to publisher vs
       | platform.
       | 
       | It looks like GoDaddy isn't even using their own policy
       | correctly, as the pro-life site isn't collecting private
       | information, it's just encouraging people to report via the
       | official government sites.
       | 
       | I miss the old days of hosting providers being neutral and just
       | hosting material and removing illegal content after contact by
       | the appropriate authorities.
       | 
       | Activist corporations may be popular when they advocate for
       | causes we like, but make it difficult to know what they do allow.
       | In this case the pro-life organisation, while they are jerks, are
       | just advocating a cause GoDaddy disagrees with without actually
       | violating a policy - while begs the question, what other
       | political causes will GoDaddy ban you for supporting?
        
         | godshatter wrote:
         | > are just advocating a cause GoDaddy disagrees with without
         | actually violating a policy
         | 
         | For all we know they may not even disagree with it and can just
         | see which way the wind is blowing. Which would be even worse,
         | if true.
        
         | eklbt wrote:
         | I always find it funny when I see the same people complain
         | about companies lobbying for legislation and then cheer on this
         | behavior.
        
           | dane-pgp wrote:
           | Surely you can see the difference between a company trying to
           | change legislation and a company choosing its customers?
           | 
           | Even if you think that corporations should be allowed to
           | influence legislation just as its individual employees can
           | (if they are citizens), it's much easier to boycott a company
           | whose policies you don't like than to boycott the laws of a
           | government you don't like.
           | 
           | (In case the downvoters are incorrectly inferring my opinion
           | on these matters, I should say that I'm not trying to make an
           | argument in support of either corporate lobbying or corporate
           | censorship).
        
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