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moocow01 on Dec 22, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move you...

I would expect that SOPA on the whole would discourage domain registration and the general development of web properties amongst the masses so I'm a bit surprised GoDaddy supports it just from a business perspective.

Anyone care to enlighten me about what I'm missing here?

notahacker on Dec 22, 2011 [–]

As I understand it SOPA results in a shift of the burden for policing content from registrars and hosts towards government bodies and the administrators of the DNS system. Alternatively-framed bills introduced in the name of combating piracy could have much more damaging implications for Godaddy.

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