Quoting from TC article...

The statement is from our newly appointed CEO, who makes it clear, we don’t just ‘not support SOPA,’ Go Daddy OPPOSES SOPA.

“We have observed a spike in domain name transfers, which are running above normal rates and which we attribute to GoDaddy’s prior support for SOPA, which was reversed,” said Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman. “Go Daddy opposes SOPA because the legislation has not fulfilled its basic requirement to build a consensus among stake-holders in the technology and Internet communities. Our company regrets the loss of any of our customers, who remain our highest priority, and we hope to repair those relationships and win back their business over time.”

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Too late as far as I'm concerned... it's like cheating on your wife and then saying sorry... it does not wash it away...

If rich are to pay taxes to a point where they are on par with upper middle class, or anywhere close to it, then you would not have any rich people at all. There is no incentive to work hard and be filthy rich. No innovation... no competition... no big tax contributions (27%)... Thus, statement you said comes to effect - "the system would be incredibly broken."r>

People who work hard to get rich and/or have had their parents or grandparents work hard to ensure their kids and grand kids would not have to, is fine to me... as long as their fortunes are accumulated though working hard or being smart and not cheating and looting and stealing - in which case they should be in jail (like some people on wall street).

There is nothing wrong with being filthy rich. There is nothing wrong paying 27% or 30% or even 35% of taxes either... but the "MOB" has to be aware that every change just like in any ecosystem in nature bring about changes. Those changes might be - these rich people moving out of USA and moving to Canada, or Switzerland, or Germany, or Australia, or Japan, or UK... or anywhere else where taxes are reasonable and where they can retain most of their wealth without giving it to government. Then USA would really be screwed... so you be careful for what Obama brainwashes you with...think for yourself and don't follow the mob.

There is a difference in that and you voicing your opinion. If you want to say something to an extent - I think this person rapes small children, I have no proof, but I still think he does... that is fine... it is free speech and that is your opinion. But if you label me as raping small children, I think there is a term for that called libel. Courts can handle cases like that... it is generally used where you'd have to prove that either I am raping kids, and you are correct.... or you are incorrect and you will end up paying a large fine and issuing public apology.

This guy was voicing his opinion from his experience, and he probably has reasonable amount of experience with this person to be a good judge of what she is and is not. So unless they had a trial for libel, and unless he was found to be wrong in his description of her, and if he presented that information as facts on his blog and not just his opinion, then yes... he is guilty of libel.... but extreme measure would have been to get him to issue apology, take down just one article in his Blog, and pay a fine for damages done.

This argument that you use is same argument everyone will use to limit free speech because it frightens people what free speech can accomplish.

You can use a gun to defend yourself and other people, or you can use it to commit crimes. It does not mean that gun is the problem, it is person using it. Free speech is a weapon in much the same way. With great power comes great responsibility....

This is just bunch of bull and you know it. Are tabloids trying to protect general public when they write all kinds of lies and worse about stars in order to sell paper. They turn a profit no this. They also have larger customer base than this guy.

Free speech is free speech... and it is not free speech when someone can arbitrarily say - no you are not allowed to voice your opinions. Thus also my support of Wikileaks... content matters not... we don't get to decide what is free speach and what is not...If we do, then it's not free speech to begin with.

Actually you'd be surprised. I was trying to switch US based customer over from AT&T to Verizon, and due to the craziness I ran into I started making a log. It is quite extensive and funny. Things such as having to make 15 consecutive phone calls in order to reach correct person to talk to as I was being disconnected, looped into menu, and put on hold by people for over 30 minutes while they "transfer me". This was just Verizon too... one of the better ones apparently. Verizon sales person took 3 months to do nothing after 20 emails sent to him, he was coming up with excuses every single time - so funny yet so sad. It's like they had ex-con working as corporate sales rep. It's like they did not want our business... AT&T was even worse if you can believe....

After this experience I started to admire service we get from Bell & Rogers... one phone call and sales team of either will take care of everything...

This is ridiculous. I thought robocalling was illegal? Didn't Homer get arrested for using a dialler "send me $1 to Happy Dude" or something like that?

What Telcos need is +1/-1 (like-dislike) button or a code you can punch in when someone calls you, so people can subscribe to a service optionally if they wish not to receive calls from poorly rated phone numbers. I'm sure Google could quite easily implement this features on their Google Voice too. I'd like to see more features like this especially in VoIP companies as it's relatively easy to develop features like this.

I'd even go as far as developing a "conversationalist" phone bot, to engage sales people into long discussions and waste the most possible time so telemarketting stops paying off...

We should not get back at these guys using same services, for all you know, these guys could be even double dipping.

Unless it harms your PC, it's just bloatware, crapware, junkware, with possible hint of spyware. Everyone knows this, it's not news.