“In case you haven’t heard, Texas now has a law that makes it illegal for anyone to help women get an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy – and to take advantage of that, the anti-abortion group Texas Right to Life is encouraging citizens to report those people at a dedicated ‘whistleblower’ website, promising to ‘ensure that these lawbreakers are held accountable for their actions.'”
“However, it now looks like Texas Right to Life may have trouble keeping a home on the web, because hosting provider GoDaddy has given the group 24 hours to find a different place to park its website. ‘We have informed prolifewhistleblower.com they have 24 hours to move to another provider for violating our terms of service,’ a spokesperson told The New York Times and The Verge. The anti-abortion group’s website has been under siege for days now, with angry protesters flooding it with fake tips – including at least one fake claim that Texas governor Greg Abbott himself had violated the law, according to NYT. One activist on TikTok even created a script that can automatically feed fake reports into the website’s tipbox, as Motherboard reported yesterday. He told the NYT that the automated tools he’d created had received over 15,000 clicks” – The Verge.