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Domain hoster Go Daddy has shut down a Web site that lets people criticize individual police officers, saying it was using too much bandwidth. But the site owner says he is being censored after police complained.


http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9892656-7.html


Hmmm..what is your thought on this type of situation ?
 
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If the siteowner was clearly going over the bandwidth alloted to him,
based on the plan he purchased...simple!
Get a bigger bandwidth plan, then see if GoDaddy puts it back online.
What a brilliant site.
RateMyCop.com
LOL
I hope he does get a new plan, then tries to get it up again!
Then we can actually see if it is censorship or just the wrong host plan!
L8R,
Red Rock!
 
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Whats funny is how can 3 terabytes of bandwidth be used up by only 480,000 pages views? Must have had some ridiculously huge files on there :)
 
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LOL
Yeah, when you are rating your local cops...
I guess people have ALOT to say!!!
LOL
Wow,
Brilliantly Funny!
I wish I thought of it!
 
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site is back up.
 
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....but I have seen some hosting companies put a cap so that when the bandwidth is fully utilized, the next visitor sees an error page. Did they have to close it!!! Does this mean I wasted money paying GoDaddy to develop a site??
 
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Way to get free publicity. Brilliant!

The site owner can easily choose a server/host outside the US where he can go about his business.

M.
 
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Mike said:
Way to get free publicity. Brilliant!
Yup. Any publicity is good publicity.

IMHO, though, that site's got the words "high risk" written all over it.
 
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IMHO, though, that site's got the words "high risk" written all over it.

"High risk" for whom or what?
 
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verbster said:
"High risk" for whom or what?
Oh, cops complaining...people complaining about cops....the works. Search all
around the web and you'll find various discussions on it. :)

There's another article somewhere where Rackspace (I think) gave up on the
site due to potential risks. Mileage varies, depending on a variety of things.
 
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