GoDaddy Boycott Launched By Anti-SOPA

Opponents of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) launch a boycott against domain name registrar GoDaddy, which expresses its strong support of the controversial legislation. The boycott movement basically asked their supporter to transfer their domains to another registrar. While Silicon Valley firms like Google, Facebook and Twitter overwhelmingly oppose SOPA on the grounds that it will usher in unprecedented censorship online, suffocate innovation, and endanger the domain name system (DNS) upon which the Internet is built, GoDaddy brushes aside all these arguments, and claims that the bill is needed to “identify and disable all types of illegal activity on the Internet.”