Be Gone! – Go Daddy tells cop site
p2pnet news | Freedom:- ‘Be Gone!’ – domain host Go Daddy told a site which used to let people leave anonymous written feedback about police officers, and rank service based on, ‘Professionalism, Fairness and Satisfaction’.
“You have the right to remain informed,” RateMyCop.com used to say.
But no more because it was using too much bandwidth, said Go Daddy, according to CNET News.
However, Gino Sesto, RateMyCop’s owner, believes he’s being censored after police complained, states the story of going on >>>
Late last week, KGO TV in San Francisco ran a news story saying that police officers wanted the site shut down, claiming it puts them at risk by revealing their information.
On Wednesday, the site continued to be offline displaying a message that says “Oops!!!” and urged the site owner to contact Go Daddy.
Sesto was, “paying for compact car, when he really needed a semi-truck,” CNET has Go Daddy spokeswoman Elizabeth Driscoll saying.
RateMyCop was using six times the amount of bandwidth allotted for its $15-a-month ’shared server’ plan and, “The situation was absolutely NOT about censorship in ANY way,” she said.
Adds CNET:
“This isn’t the first time Go Daddy has been accused of censoring a site because of outside pressure. A year ago, it pulled the plug on a security list Web site, after giving the site owner less than an hour notice, after MySpace complained that there its members’ usernames and passwords were archived on the site.”
But Sesto says he was given no notice of the suspension,” says WebProNews, going on,”When he called GoDaddy, the company told him that he’d been shut down for ’suspicious activity’.
“When Sesto got a supervisor on the phone, the company changed its story and claimed the site had surpassed its 3 terabyte bandwidth limit, a claim that Sesto says is nonsense.
“How can it be overloaded when it only had 80,000 page views today, and 400,000 yesterday?” – he asks in the story, adding:
Now that the site is back online, Sesto’s next challenge may be in policing its users. In looking at the profiles of two most-rated officers, one in Arizona and the other in Oklahoma, the same user gave each 5 stars and praise for their work. It looks odd to us.
When we checked RateMyCop.com at 4:15 am Pacific today, it was again displaying the ‘Ooops’ sign.
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Also See:
CNET News – Go Daddy shuts down police-rating Web site, March 12, 2008
WebProNews – Site taken offline, GoDaddy mum on reason, March 12, 2008
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March 14th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
FTA- “[A] TV [station] ran a news story saying that police officers wanted the site shut down, claiming it puts them at risk by revealing their information.”
At risk of what? Loosing their job because they are bad cops? Bring it. They are ostensibly public servants that are paid with tax dollars. If the public overwhelmingly thinks they are doing a shitty job they should get the boot. Period.
March 14th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
The site seems to be back up.
March 16th, 2008 at 1:19 am
If you mean by redirecting to a loving family dollhouses, sure.. it’s back up.
pinging ratemycop.com returns this IP:
76.167.159.53 … and it’s a dollhouse thing.