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by dasboot 5935 days ago
It's probably mainly a business decision (admin hassle) milked for PR.

Let's not politicize things too much, and let's not forget that GoDaddy doesn't exactly have a stellar ethical record as well. They are quick to censor speech [1], delisting whole sites from DNS. They also have advertising policies that are questionable, etc.

[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/03/godaddy-silence/

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GoDaddy is also run by a pro-torture extremist

> The interrogation techniques at Gitmo are very mild. It's important to note that to date, there have been no fatalities among the prisoners at Gitmo. Some of the "terrible" techniques we are being decried for using in Gitmo are sleep deprivation, solitary confinement, exposure to cold and heat (as in a cold room), mental games, constant questioning, etc. All of it, when compared to what has been done in the Middle East to extract information from prisoners is mild, indeed.

-- Bob Parsons, GoDaddy founder, from his deleted blog entry on Gitmo