Company says campaign committee and politics not at play in request to change web hosts.
Last Friday GoDaddy.com sent a notice to the owner of Homelandsecurityus.com informing him that he needed to find a new home for his domain name and web site.
Douglas J. Hagmann, founder of the site, tells his story here. He claims that one of the Obama campaign’s “truth teams” asked Go Daddy to give the site the boot.
But Ben Butler, Network Abuse Director at Go Daddy, told Domain Name Wire today that its request to move the site had nothing to do with politics. Here’s the full statement from Butler:
We did receive complaints about objectionable content on Homelandsecurityus.com, but it was not from a government agency or campaign committee, nor was it political in nature.
As you may already know, we investigate all serious complaints about content reported to violate our terms of service. In this case, we substantiated the complaints and found several examples of content that appeared to violate our Terms of Service.
We don’t speak to specifics due to customer privacy concerns. We can tell you our terms of service prohibit content or activities designed to defame, embarrass, harm, abuse, threaten, slander or harass third-parties. We also don’t allow content to encourage unlawful activities by others, such as hate crimes, terrorism and child pornography. Our terms also prohibit activities that are tortious, vulgar, obscene, invasion of the privacy of a third-party, racially or ethically.
For a complete look at our terms of service, you can visit [here].
It would not be a violation of our terms to disagree with a person or organization’s politics.”
Whois records show that Hagmann moved his site to Network Solutions and is hosting it with JustHost.com.
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Fortunately you won’t be writing something shocking or objectionable, any time soon Andrew 😀
What a joke godaddy is. I say anyone who is still there should look for options. Lots of them out there.
I too have a blog on Homeland Security with additional comments on politics. i have seen his website many times, and with what he has published can only suggest that you are indeed being influenced by someone or a group that opposes anything said about Obama. Thank god i do not have my blog with you.
to the criminals who are running this world…
the tighter you squeeze the people, the bigger the bang will be when we cannot be squeezed any more.
it’s the same all over the world – governments are systematically shutting down all factual reporting, commentary, opinion, and concealing their crimes and punishing those who dare to try and expose it.
This is all speculation from the site owner, he claims on his video that he felt like that is how it was, there is no evidence at all.
Douglas J Hagmann is a well respected PI. He has been been on Coast to CoastAM, Alex Jones, Local radio shows,World Radio Shows..Fortune 500 Companies. The guy is a pro. He has an excellent reputation.
@ Larry – well, if he’s been on Alex Jones, you can’t argue with that!
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to joe the commentor above. GoDaddy can s ay what they want, their complainants can say what they want; but this most certainly IS political and ideological. Hagmann’s woe is not an isolated incident. A while back Barenakedislam, which uses real footage and articles from all over the world about Islam; was under attack not too long back. The big O will brook no opposition or dissent. So sit back and watch what happens to your free speech.
Perhaps someone had a political agenda, but I think if they pointed to the page that apparently used to have a video of a beheading, I think that would be enough for a web host to make this move.
OH! please Andrew Allemann. A beheading is not porn. It is a fact of life that illustrates Islam at its worst. The truth needs to be shown, so that people can wake up to what we may face if we allow Sharia in all its horror to be instituted in this country. If someone’s sensibilities are that fragile, then maybe they should not be on the internet at all.
I don’t care whether or not it should be shown, but it has nothing to do with politics if this is one of the things that violated GD’s TOS. (And I don’t know if it was this or not, but clearly this site had some controversial things on it). Whether or not it should be shown is one thing, whether or not a web host has to host it is another.
Interesting site and commetary.controversal yes it is. Godaddy and many large companys perfer to stay away from controversary. Stay on the safe side of things. Muslims are a problem and have been fighting isreal for decades yet the truth is buried and never comers out.Rather than fight the gov godaddy too the easy road.Especially during an election year. Site owner should have his own host..AND CONTINUE TO BLOG…NOBODY LIKES A BOATROCKER…
That’s the problem–GoDaddy took the easy road, and didn’t want to rock the boat. i do wonder how much their executives paid the Obama campaign however.
@ John Tieso – You’ve Go Daddy pegged to the wrong political party 🙂
Previous and current CEO donated to McCain. Current CEO donated to Romney.
I can find donations from top Go Daddy management to only one democrat, and that person happens to be on the U.S. House subcommittee for Communications, Technology, and Internet
i don’t understand what the fuss is all about, really.