If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. There are too many strange bills somehow getting as far as they are, because no one’s “supporting” (involved in) them. 

You can either support a bill as a reveler, or a pall bearer.

If I were one of the millions of people who Godaddy had conned into overpriced web hosting plans, billed monthly, then I would definitely be switching.

And Bob Parsons, if you want to prove what a man you are, instead of killing an elephant (with the help of a guide and a rifle), why not join the fight to return our rights to us, end corporate control of our government, re-regulate our financial markets, etc?

Some gold nuggets:

“The solutions outlined in SOPA clearly present a thoughtful and comprehensive approach.”

“We work with law enforcement agencies at all levels and routinely assist in a wide variety of criminal and civil investigations.”

“[...] I’m still struggling with why some Internet companies oppose PROTECT IP and SOPA.”

“You can still search for “drugs without a prescription” and yield natural search results [...].”

“The people who seek to use alternative DNS to do so may just get what’s coming to them. I don’t wish malware on anyone, but we all know that criminals will always find a way.”

“I’m finding that most of the concerns on the substance out there are unfounded.”

I rest my case and have no further questions.

I’m OK with copyright holders and governments fighting piracy, as long as they don’t fight dirty.
What I’ve managed to read up on about SOPA so far, is hair-raising, and no IAP, ISP, or end user should have to accept what in effect is harassment from the above instances, regardless of whether they have the legal power to do so or not.

IE, the plugin should search the context of a webpage and compare that to the list of companies that support SOPA/PIPA. 

If the url=a supporter, a red light should flash on the browser bar, maybe a contextual popup: “Warning, are doing business with a company that supports censoring the internet.”

If page content is similar to names of companies (or their products) on the list, an orange light ought to flash “Warning, you may be about to do business with (insert partial matches/matches based on products/context), a company that supports censoring the internet.”

Do something similar with a list of names of the bill’s supporters in government. I want to know when I’m going around the internet about to buy goods/services so that I can avoid the bill’s business supporters, and if I read/share interviews or have the chance to donate/not donate to a politician who supports the bill. GoDaddy has just proved how effective this would be.

Does that make any sense?

That’s kind of like Wal-Mart running an “everything costs 500% more” sale.

For those of you who bought GoDaddy domains prior to this kerfuffle, why did you use them?  It always seemed like “those who buy domains” and “those who know how much GoDaddy sucks” are usually the same people, and would seek out any number of better alternatives.  
They’ve been sleazy from the beginning, yeah?  Thought that was obvious from their commercials.

No, my goal wasn’t to change their mind. My goal was (along with people who hold *far* more domains than I) to send a message that this won’t be tolerated, and prevent other companies from doing such things in the first place.