Texas Right to Life has been informed by GoDaddy that they are being expelled.
The domain host informed the anti-abortion group that their website, which allows citizens report anyone who assists or performs an abortion after six weeks, had violated GoDaddy’s terms of service. It would be removed within 24hrs. In an effort to enforce Texas Heartbeat Law, the site was created.
"We have informed prolifewhistleblower.com they have 24 hours to move to another provider for violating our terms of service," said GoDaddy spokesperson Dan C. Rice in an email to Gizmodo.
The most likely violation was reporting personal information without consent. This is what the Texas Right to Life submission form allows anyone to do.
Mashable tried to access the site but a WordPress security plugin blocked it. It is unclear whether this block was caused by GoDaddy's eviction or site owners. However, it seems likely that the latter due to the nature of the plugin and recent reports about attempts to overload the website using spam submissions.
This is what you see when you attempt to access Right to Life from the NYC region. Credit: Screenshot: google Chrome/Wordpress
Representative from Texas Right to Life said that they aren't discouraged by this move.
Kimberly Schwartz, spokesperson for NPR, stated that "our IT team is currently in the process of transferring assets to another provider"
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Internet "hacktivists," who were trying to take down the site, worked overtime to spam the submission form with fake reports. Sean Black, a TikTok user, and coder, created an automated system to submit false reports approximately every 10 seconds. Although his IP address was blocked, he continued to create an iOS shortcut to continue filling out false reports. Vice reports that the shortcut has been accessed by almost 5,000 people.
Texas Right to Life claims the attempts to undermine the site failed and that they were ready for this situation. It is still amazing to consider that anti-abortion groups had to sort through thousands of submissions in order to determine if any of the Avengers tried to have an abortion.
