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GoDaddy has a long history of taking down sites at the mere "request" of some law enforcement agency, or even the request of another company without even the air of legal authority. [1] They tried to write themselves into SOPA as the recipient of domains confiscated by the government, and that led to one of the internet's more effective boycotts, with nearly 80,000 domains transferred out in 2011. Just two of the many reasons nobody should be entrusting the face of their business to this company.

1: http://www.alternet.org/story/47669/the_self-appointed_censo... , one of many examples.



Wow, a corrupt Mexican government convinces a corrupt American government to break its own laws take this site off of the internet. I am sad.


I'm going to take this at face value and assume you are, indeed, sad. I hope you are, because it is sad.


I am sad. This is a violation of not only our constitution, democracy in general and our civically engaged friends to our south. The message this unequivocally sends is, "Hey Mexican people who are trying to change shit, we don't have your back, at all."


And now they own Media Temple. It'll be interesting if they behave the same way with that company.




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