Not even a shift to full SOPA opposition can stop Go Daddy from hemorrhaging customers. Domain registrar Go Daddy has changed its stance on recently proposed legislation Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) from “not supporting” to full on opposition, according to a statement from the company today. “We have observed a spike in domain name transfers, which are running above normal rates and which we attribute to Go Daddy’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.” The strengthened opposition may have something to do with today’s “Dump Go Daddy Domain Day” boycott, which was organized by users of community news sharing site Reddit. Other internet users have even gone beyond a simple boycott. The 19 Senators Who Voted To Censor The Internet. From the dept This is hardly a surprise but, this morning (as previously announced ), the lame duck Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously voted to move forward with censoring the internet via the COICA bill -- despite a bunch of law professors explaining to them how this law is a clear violation of the First Amendment .
What's really amazing is that many of the same Senators have been speaking out internet censorship in other countries, yet they happily vote to approve it here because it's seen as a way to make many of their largest campaign contributors happy. There's very little chance that the bill will actually get passed by the end of the term but, in the meantime, we figured it might be useful to highlight the 19 Senators who voted to censor the internet this morning: Patrick J.
Herb Kohl -- Wisconsin Jeff Sessions -- Alabama Dianne Feinstein -- California Orrin G. Russ Feingold -- Wisconsin Chuck Grassley -- Iowa Arlen Specter -- Pennsylvania Jon Kyl -- Arizona Dick Durbin -- Illinois. Chinese woman sent to labor camp for retweeting. By Nov 19, 2010 9:59AM UTC China has sentenced a woman to a year in a labor camp for “disrupting social order” by retweeting a satirical message urging Chinese protesters to smash the Japan pavilion at the Shanghai Expo, an international rights group said.
Cheng Jianping, 46, re-posted a message from the social networking site Twitter last month hinting that Chinese protesters should smash the Japan pavilion at the Shanghai Expo and adding on the message “Angry youth, charge!” According to Amnesty International, which condemned the sentence in a statement late Thursday. Amnesty said Cheng’s retweet was meant as satire, mocking anti-Japanese protesters who had grown in number since tensions between the countries increased after a dispute erupted in September over islands claimed by both Japan and China.
Government officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
L’édition vietnamienne en zone rouge. Transparency Report. Internet freedom is declining. A new tool from Google sheds light on internet censorship. Google releases a new tool to track online censorship Google Transparency Report shows blocked traffic and censorship requests The data are not specific or uniform enough for robust comparisons Google hopes more companies will release similar information (CNN) -- Think internet censorship only happens in China and Iran? Think again, says Google. The search company this week released a new online tool to highlight specific instances of government censorship of the internet in countries from Germany to Turkey and Australia to Thailand. Called Google Transparency, the online report shows that internet censorship around the world is increasing over time, and not always in the countries you'd expect, said Dorothy Chou, a Google policy analyst who worked on the project.
Google Transparency includes an interactive map where users can see how many requests countries have made for Google to block or remove content.