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Re:AR15.com Booted from GoDaddy by unethical_ban on Monday January 11, 2021 @09:14PM (#25741399)
My position (in theory) would be that DNS, ISPs and datacenters are a different layer of the "freedom tech" stack. Depriving a business of the ability to host and distribute content via at least a DNS-backed website should be held to a different standard than removal from an app store or specific social media site.
Re:AR15.com Booted from GoDaddy by CountDrewku on Monday January 11, 2021 @11:59PM (#25742494)
Agree. If you cared or fought for net neutrality at all then you cannot support this mentality. It’s a terrible precedence to set. Especially when it’s applied in a targeted way where one group is allowed to do the thing the other is not (e.g actual dictators allowed on Twitter and Trump not, left wing allowed to support violent riots etc.)
Re:AR15.com Booted from GoDaddy by milkrocks on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @12:06PM (#25749794)
Do you feel this way about cake bakers to?
Re:AR15.com Booted from GoDaddy by mmmmmmmmmmmmm on Monday January 18, 2021 @02:26PM (#25825487)
When a single "cake baker" holds nearly half of the world's market, as monopolies like AWS do, and routinely colludes with their "competitors" to not serve anyone they dislike or that starts a competing service, absolutely.
Re:AR15.com Booted from GoDaddy by type0 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @08:06PM (#25756588)
unless you want to sell it and eat it as well
Re:AR15.com Booted from GoDaddy by jassmith87 on Monday January 11, 2021 @09:56PM (#25741676)
There are thousands of other registrars out there. GoDaddy doesn't want them, they can move to someone who does. Once they've gone through them all and been rejected by every last one I'll accept that maybe maybe something should be done. Then again if you are being rejected by every single registrar out there maybe you should look inward for the problem.
Re:AR15.com Booted from GoDaddy by unethical_ban on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:40AM (#25748274)
That's a very libertarian take. "Why should a business have to cater to black people? Or be forced to build a ramp for a handicapped person? The market will take care of it, there are plenty of grocers in town."

DNS and network connectivity are pretty effing vital to using the web. Again, it's a much more fundamental layer than the app store, and while yes there are other registrars, I'm not sure we should condone this.

And practically, how quickly can they move to get their domain moved to another registrar? Get their nameservers moved?