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If SOPA is really dead then how come it is now in action? (See Details)

Asked by Dog (25152points) February 15th, 2012

Today JotForm.com was taken down by US government agency. They hosted with GoDaddy who deactivated their domain.
To clarify- they are simply a form creation site and NOT pirating anything.

This is what was posted on their alternate site:

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JotForm.com Suspended
February 15, 2012
As a part of an ongoing investigation about a content posted in our site, a US government agency has temporarily suspended our jotform.com domain. We are fully cooperating with them, but it is not possible to say when the domain would be unblocked.

To make sure your forms continue operating, please change your form URLs on your web site from jotform.com to jotform.net. Here is an example:

Before:
http://www.jotform.com/form/123456789

After:
http://www.jotform.net/form/123456789

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

UPDATE: Many people on the comments assumed the content was posted by us. This can happen to any site that allows public to post content. SOPA may not have passed, but what happened shows that it is already being practiced. All they have to do is to ask Godaddy to take a site down. We have 2 millions user generated forms. It is not possible for us to manually review all forms. This can happen to any web site that allows user generated content. Source
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The last time I looked we were in the United States and SOPA was NOT passed.

How is it that now we are under threat of government lock down without a trial, without warning and we are assumed GUILTY until we fight to prove ourselves INNOCENT?

This does not sound like a Democracy. What is going on here?

Sadly this SHOOT FIRST and ask questions later approach will likely torpedo this site beyond recovery. A real shame since the guys spent a lot of time building their site. I am both baffled and alarmed.

Please enlighten me or at least comment if you wish.

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