Anonymous Texas website for snitching on abortions getting switched off

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Sep. 3, 2021

Abortion-right supporters rally astatine  the Texas Capitol successful  July, earlier  the caller   instrumentality    was signed into law.Abortion-right supporters rally astatine the Texas Capitol successful July, earlier the caller instrumentality was signed into law.Getty Images record photo

A mind-boggling proviso successful Texas' caller termination instrumentality allows backstage citizens to writer virtually anyone progressive with helping a pistillate get an abortion. The bounty if idiosyncratic successfully sues and wins is $10,000, positive lawyer fees. 

In the days starring up to the law, which went into effect connected September 1, an anti-abortion radical launched prolifewhistleblower.com, a website tract wherever whistleblowers tin taxable details of the expected violations, and adjacent upload files to enactment their claims.

In the days that followed, the website garnered nationalist headlines aft pro-choice Americans (and TikTokers) flooded the tract with mendacious claims. Now, the website's host, GoDaddy, is giving the tract 24 hours to determination oregon the institution volition unopen it down. 

According to the New York Times, GoDaddy informed Texas Right to Life precocious Thursday that it had 24 hours to find a caller hosting supplier earlier cutting disconnected service.

“We person informed prolifewhistleblower.com they person 24 hours to determination to different supplier for violating our presumption of service,” Dan C. Race, a GoDaddy spokesman, told the Times

The Times reports that GoDaddy’s rules prohibit customers from collecting oregon harvesting nonpublic accusation astir anyone without their anterior written consent.

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