[ga] More GoDaddy censorship: GoDaddy Silences RateMyCop.com

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Well it looks as though GoDaddy is at it again...  Maybe GoDaddy
cot some presure from some law enforcment agencies?  After all
GoDaddy does have some porn sites registered...

Wired is running a story about
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/godaddy-silence.html
GoDaddy shutting down a police watchdog site called RateMyCop.
However, GoDaddy can't seem to give a consistent answer as for why.
>From the article: 'RateMyCop founder Gino Sesto says he was given
no notice of the suspension. When he called GoDaddy, the company
told him that he'd been shut down for suspicious activity. When Sesto
got a supervisor on the phone, the company changed its story and
claimed the site had surpassed its 3 terabyte bandwidth limit, a claim
that Sesto says is nonsense. "How can it be overloaded when it only
had 80,000 page views today, and 400,000 yesterday?" Sesto says
police can post comments as well, and a future version of the site will
allow them to authenticate themselves to post rebuttals more
prominently. Chief Dyer wants to get legislation passed that would make
RateMyCop.com illegal, which, of course, wouldn't pass constitutional
muster in any court in America.

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