Jawa’s Chat With “Fitna’s” Site Host - Give ‘em Hell!
We consider ourselves staunch allies with the Jawa Report, and after you read what was posted at the Jawa Report, I would like to ask you to consider making a phone call, or sending an email, or…whatever…
From today’s Jawa Report:
I just spent 30-40 minutes on the phone with Network Solutions (based in PA), complaining about their removal of the fitnathemovie.com website.
Ultimately, I was only able to get as high as a woman named Shannon, the Assistant to the Executive Officer (his name is Roy Dunbar), who gave me a polite brush off, without actually answering any of my questions.
But I was making her very uncomfortable…I could actually hear her blanching over the phone!
I explained why I was contacting her (she was already aware of Fitna), and when I was done explaining my gripe (forcefully), she asked me if I had any specific questions for her.
So I asked her some specific questions, and informed her they were for an article I was writing for a popular conservative blog…where upon her voice became even gloomier:
1. “Why did you remove a website for TOS violations when there was nothing but a parking page with the text “Coming Soon”, and a photo of the Quran?”
She directed my attention to the notice on the page, saying “It is what it is.”
2. “Why is an American based company willing to practice preemptive censorship, when there has not yet been any violation?”
Again, she had no answer.
3. “Is it Network Solutions’ common practice to remove websites on the day prior to their launch, after months of work have gone into promoting those websites?”
She said she was not aware of such a practice, but she could forward my question upward.
4. I informed her I was in the process of building a new, massive website (true), and that I had planned to host with Network Solutions prior to this debacle (not true). I asked her why American companies should give Network Solutions their business, when her company has demonstrated their willingness to ruin their customers’ livelihoods for the sake of political correctness, and their own bottom line?
She just sort of sputtered, told me she understood my point, and assured me she’d look into it.
5. I asked her why an American based hosting company is more concerned about disgruntled Muslims than protecting free speech on the Internet?
Dead silence.
6. I asked her for contact information for her boss, Roy Dunbar (CEO of Network Solutions), as she was unable to provide me with answers to my questions, and she declined, stating she could not allow every complaint to go directly to him, because he was a busy man.
I informed her I too am a busy man, and that I had just wasted more than a half hour of my time, being shuffled from person to person, trying to get answers she was ultimately unwilling or unable to provide.
I informed her I knew she was not personally responsible for this debacle (I had been pretty tough on her), and I apologized for what I was going to have to do.
I explained that, unlike radical Muslims, law abiding citizens did not have the option of issuing threats or becoming violent, thus our only recourse is to become such a pain in the ass that companies such as Network Solutions find offending Muslims preferable to the time and resources wasted dealing with us.
I told her I would be posting the gist of our conversation online, at a popular site, and that she was in for a bad week. I really hope I’m right.
Network Solutions
Roy Dunbar, CEO
10 Azalea Drive
Drums, PA 18222
800-333-7680
www.networksolutions.com
Kafir Alalazoo also had this to say regarding contacting them:
Don’t let yourselves be brushed off by the first few people you talk to… and don’t waste a lot of your time talking to them. They are low level functionaries, and you are better off wasting the time of someone at a higher pay scale.
Just keep asking to speak with someone in the corporate offices until you are connected.
I say give ‘em hell, guys…
Be respectful of others and their opinions. Inflammatory remarks and inane leftist drivel will be deleted. It ain’t about free speech, remember you’re in a private domain. My website, my prerogative.
If you can't handle using your real email address, don't bother posting a comment.
We are fighting this stuff abroad, we dont need appeasers in this country. I saw the website and there was zero substance so no need for removal and no possible chance of violating ‘Terms of service’.
I will be sending an email
March 24th, 2008 at 1:01 pmI, too, sent an email but in that email, I pointed out that according to the Network Solutions homepage, their company’s Business partners include:
- Intuit
- Fed Ex Corp.
- Quickbooks
And also, PayPal is a featured advertiser on their site.
I mentioned their violation of free speech in America and that they were appeasing islamic terrorists and that I was personally going to alert each of Network Solutions’ business partners and PayPal with my displeasure of their support of this anti-American company.
March 24th, 2008 at 4:18 pmI just tried calling. They are experiencing higher than normal call volume.
I will just have to keep this up as well as emails.
March 24th, 2008 at 4:26 pmWell … I just went to the website and clicked on the “hosting” tab. I filled out the form with my name and phone number for their sales people to call me about building and hosting an e-commerce site for me. (I am interested in getting this done, but not by them.) So now some employee of theirs (SALES will see what is going on) to call me and waste their time telling me all about what they can do for me before I tell them no f*&king way am I going to spend one penny with a company like theirs who dropped Fitna.
March 24th, 2008 at 4:31 pmBash, keep this posted all week.
March 24th, 2008 at 4:32 pmDefinitely keep this at the front page of the site so all visitors can give them hell. Im a business man myself, and I would NEVER remove this page if it was my company unless their was a clear violation of the T&A. Heck, being what it is, even if this site did violate every single T&A that their was, id still host it!
March 25th, 2008 at 5:37 am