GoDaddy hosted police-rating site shutdown: Was it censorship or bandwidth limitations?

Is GoDaddy playing censorship God again or did the police ranking site RateMyCop actually really hit its bandwidth limit? RateMyCop has been gaining popularity lately because it allows visitors to post comments and ratings on police officers. It would have been alright if the site was not disclosing officer names and badge numbers, but unfortunately it does.

In fact this feature was the reason why visitors are going to the site. Unfortunately for police officers RateMySite puts them in danger by revealing their personal information. Thus, they wanted the site to be shut down. And so a couple of days ago, fans and visitors of RateMyCop were surprised to see a site’s main page with no trace of the contents of the except for a small note that says “Oops!” RateMyCop founder Gino Sesto did what he had to do being the site owner, so he contacted GoDaddy and asked why his site was down.

GoDaddy claimed that RateMyCop’s bandwidth allotment for the month has already been exceeded by the site. This was refuted by Gino saying that it was not possible for his site to reach its 3 terabyte limit since the site’s page views ranges from 80,000 to 400,000.

Was this another case of GoDaddy censoring a site hosted on its server or did RateMyCop really reached its bandwidth limit? Who is telling the truth? You’re guess is as good as mine.

Update: RateMyCop is up again.

Read [CNET]