GoDaddy CEO Warren Adelman says “We listened to our customers. GoDaddy no longer supports SOPA.” (Here’s the GoDaddy blog post.)
Lauren Weinstein says that’s not the same as opposing SOPA: “they’re the same ethically vacuous firm as always, with their public facade changing like a chameleon, blowing in the wind of Internet public opinion.”
I still see it as a good sign when a company in a direct personal service business changes its mind because its customers made clear that change was required.
What I’d like to know now is what GoDaddy customers said to the company personally. (Not just that customers pulled their accounts in protest.) When I know that Warren Adelman and the company turned around because of direct personal pressure, in real conversation with paying customers who wished to remain so — and not just because of negative PR or customers bailing — then I’ll be glad to call it a full VRM move by customers.
Some links:
- GoDaddy No Longer Supports SOPA [Sopa] (gizmodo.com)
- Good work, Internet: GoDaddy has rescinded their support of… (shortformblog.tumblr.com)
- Brave GoDaddy CEO Says He’s Neither For Nor Against SOPA [Sopa] (gizmodo.com)
- Follow Up of the Day: GoDaddy Reverses Support for SOPA (geeks.thedailywh.at)
- GoDaddy Backs Down From SOPA Support After Customers Flee (inquisitr.com)
- Boycott GoDaddy (techrights.org)
- GoDaddy CEO: “There Has To Be Consensus About The Leadership Of The Internet Community” (techcrunch.com)
- GoDaddy backs away from SOPA after mass exodus (electronista.com)
- Victory! Boycott forces GoDaddy to drop its support for SOPA (arstechnica.com)
- GoDaddy Drops Support for SOPA, Avoids Backlash, Boycott (pcworld.com)
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This is a great example of Organizations influenced by consumers or say the best example of VRM.
Ridiculous! This is why our country is spiraling into debt. Not enough thought is taken into consideration before these bills are even proposed. They are shotgunned through the process and after the fallout settles, we spend countless taxpayer dollars and wasted time that could be applied to fixing real social-economic problems trying to figure out how to repeal these dumb laws in the first place. We already have countless ways around being traced and can encrypt our hard drives to the point where the information is useless in court. If someone really wants to infringe on copyrighted material, the internet will always provide a way no matter how hard the government nannies try to prevent it. This will be new new drug war of this millennium. Another failed government attempt to stop an unstoppable force.