Web.com Group

Florida
Website Hosting

Corprate Bias Ratings

Risk Level:

Rating - Clear
Lower Risk

Web.com, one of the world's largest website-building companies, has not terminated business relationships due to views or beliefs. However, the company does reserve the right to terminate business relationships that violate its Code of Conduct, which includes vague descriptions of "hate" and bigotry." However, Web.com does not corporately advocate for ideological causes or fund ideological groups hostile to freedom of expression, which implies that the company withholds its usage of the right to terminate for extreme situations. For these reasons, Web.com receives a Lower Risk rating.

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Rationale
Corporate Weaponization
Criteria

Has denied service to customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level
Rationale

There are no known instances of Web.com terminating business relationships for political or religious reasons. However, the company reserves the right to terminate relationships that are in violation of its Terms and Conditions (1). Such violations include posting links to illicit materials, illegal activities, and “blatant expressions of bigotry, prejudice, [or] racism.”

Criteria

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level
Rationale

Web.com does not have a written policy discriminating against religious organizations in its charitable giving (1).

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Employment policies fail to protect against discrimination based on political affiliation/views and/or religion.

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Rationale

Newfold Digital, the parent company of Web.com, does not provide protections against viewpoint discrimination (1).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy
Criteria

Uses corporate reputation to support ideological causes and/or organizations hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level
Rationale

Web.com’s parent company, Newfold Digital, has promoted efforts by its employees to fund LGBTQ youth centers, such as JASMYN. However, JASMYN does not appear to engage in political advocacy (1).

Criteria

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

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Rationale

Neither Web.com nor its parent company has directly donated to ideological groups hostile to freedom of expression (1).

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Uses corporate political contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level
N/A
Rationale

Web.com does not operate a PAC.

All links were last accessed and all information was updated on:
August 9, 2023

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