GoDaddy, the Internet hosting service, informed Texas Right to Life that it had 24 hours to locate a new hosting service because the organization’s “whistleblower” anti-abortion website violates the company’s terms of service related to people’s privacy.
“Last night, we informed prolifewhistleblower. com that they had violated GoDaddy’s terms of service and had 24 hours to transfer to the provider,” GoDaddy told Newsweek in a statement.
The website, prolifewhistleblower. com, allows others to leave unnamed recommendations that inform doctors, clinics or others who may have helped women abort after a fetal heartbeat was detected.
However, GoDaddy’s policies state that its registered and hosted Internet sites may not “collect or collect” data about Americans without their consent. Their policies also prohibit registered sites from doing anything that “violates the privacy or exposure rights of the user or any other user or entity, or violates any legal liability for confidentiality you owe to the user or any other user or entity. “
“We will not be silenced,” Kimberlyn Schwartz, director of media and communications for Texas Right to Life, told Newsweek. “If the anti-Lifers need to take down our website, we’ll put it back in place. No one can stop us from telling the truth. No one can prevent us from saving lives. We are not afraid of the crowd. We may not push it back. “
Schwartz added that his organization’s internal generation team is already in the process of moving website assets to another vendor. “We will repair the site within 24 to 48 hours,” he told Newsweek.
“A site created only for other people seeking help to carry out a delicate and stigmatized medical procedure is probably a component of this [policy],” tech journalist Shoshana Wodisnky wrote in a Gizmodo article published last Wednesday.
Wodinsky warned that others who opposed the website’s goal would report it to GoDaddy’s “abuse report” section. GoDaddy announced its resolution to start Texas Right to Life approximately 24 hours after the publication of Wodinsky’s article.
It’s unclear where the anti-abortion organization will try to reinstate its website and whether internet hosting will allow such a site to report people’s non-public medical data.
The Texas Right to Life website created after Texas passed a very strict new anti-abortion law.
The new Texas law allows ordinary citizens to prosecute those who “are aiding or encouraging” an abortion. These auxiliaries and accomplices can come with any physical health worker, driving force, or funder who is helping a pregnant user have an abortion. whoever effectively pursues such an assistant is entitled to a compliment of at least $10,000 from the accused user.
Schwartz said that after its launch, the online page was flooded with false reports from other people seeking investigators’ time and showed that the online page blocks the IP addresses of those who submit false reports.
Schwartz also said the site has been affected by distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks. DDOS attacks use automated online bots to send requests for access to an online page in an attempt to overwhelm its traffic capacity and block it.
Updated 03/09/2021, 6:22 p. m. ET: This story has been updated by Texas Right to Life Media and Communications Director Kimberlyn Schwartz.
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