Regarding my 'blah blah' attitude, yes, it's just a job. I'm working on a few side projects, and building up a consulting business in my off hours. Go Daddy is a great career place to work, but frankly it's the wal-mart of the internet... things are relatively inexpensive, but still more expensive in general, and a lot of the things that we sell are completely worthless. My product, for example - Search Engine Visibility - is a waste of $3/month. The 'premium' version might be worthwhile - it's managed PPC advertising, I think - but the cheap version is stupid (we'll see if it stays like that; I'm supposed to work on an R&D component over the next six months or so). Also, when I tried to transfer to a very cool position inside the company, my boss's boss blocked my transfer (apparently).
Either way, I'm glad they changed their position on SOPA - I was very much against it in the first place. Mostly my attitude on Friday was a result of the fact that we were coming up on Christmas weekend.
They didn't say "as employees, you will no longer support SOPA" - it was
this press release. It may have had something to do with the publicity, or it may have had something to do with the company's leadership and ownership changes that occurred just a week prior. IDK.