The firm GoDaddy, a major registrar of website names, faces a likely wave of customer defections Thursday, and it’s all about the politics of that freewheeling information conduit known as the Internet.
The boycott is happening because the company lent support to proposed legislation in Congress called the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA), designed to crack down on copyright infringement.
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