Are you familiar with the GoDaddy commercials? Have you heard of that some Christians are pulling their web sites from GoDaddy servers because the last batch of Super Bowl ads were too suggestive?
When I was looking for a host for this site, the GoDaddy ads pushed me away. But then they were recommended to me by one or two good people I know, and their offer was better and easier than other places I looked. So you are reading this blog by way of GoDaddy servers. At the moment, I plan to remain uncomfortable with their advertising instead of taking the blog somewhere else, but I wonder if I should go ahead and move it.
This from a guy who wanted to boycott Disney for supposedly suggestive content in their cartoons. Am I acting inconsistently with my worldview by passively condoning GoDaddy advertising? What do you think?
I’ve never seen the GoDaddy commercials (at least that I recall), so I have no opinion.
Well, you’ve put me in a right old spot. How can I tell how bad the commercials might be without youtubing them? And obviously, I don’t want to dignify them by doing THAT, so I’ll just say that you’d probably go a long way to find a server that didn’t have SOMETHING iffy on it – even the university ones – and at least GoDaddy (whoever they are) seem to run a fairly stern policy on “whois”, which must militate against would-be porn distributors, so why not chill and find a case for continuing with GoDaddy as “plundering the Egyptians”?
Cheers
Otepoti
Well said. I like that, and I’m sorry for bringing it up. I don’t want to be in spots like that and I don’t want to put you there either. Perhaps the lack of comments on this topic indicate BwB readers don’t care to be up to speed on things like this. Anyway, I appreciate your thoughts.
Don’t watch television. What am I missing?
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I dunno about your consistency; I doubt very many would ccare to delve into the business and personal practices of all the companies we patronize. But I did see one of the ads, and it wasn’t suggestive; It bordered on pornographic.
Well, that’s why I wrote something about it. If your blog was hosted with them, Sherry, would you move to someone else?