The government has no problem putting private citizens at risk by lumping all sorts of people into the sex offender category (such as people caught pissing in the bushes or teens having sex), and then posting invasive details about their whereabouts online, but when someone posts a little information about the police, well, that's too much. Why, that's a public service to the community! We can't afford to not treat people who take a leak in public because they can't hold it any longer, or horny teenagers as though they are anything less than the dangerous criminals that they are! Post an officer's name and badge number, however, and we're talking a serious threat to their health:

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS) ― Police agencies from coast to coast are furious with a new website on the internet. RateMyCop.com has the names of thousands of officers, and many believe it is putting them in danger. Officer Hector Basurto, the vice president of the Latino Police Officers Association, recently learned about the site. "I'd like to see it gone," he said. "Having a website like this out there puts a lot of law enforcement in danger," he said. "It exposes us out there."

You mean like how sex offender registries often put people who committed minor sex crimes, or those who happen to move into a home they used to occupy, in danger of being injured or killed by blood-crazed vigilantes who assume that they're all cut from the same cloth? They don't matter because, you see, they broke the law and they deserve the consequences, no matter what the consequences really are. Now this, this is just hypocrisy at its most rank:

Police associations that represent more than 100,000 police and sheriffs in California are now seeking legislation to see if they can eliminate the site altogether. They say that officers who are rated face unfair maligning without any opportunity to defend themselves.

Because it is so much fairer to be labeled a child-molesting scumbag by society because your name is on a sex offender registry because you got caught relieving yourself in the wrong place, at the wrong time or had sex when you were a teenager.

**UPDATE**: This shouldn't surprise anyone. GoDaddy has pulled the RateMyCop website for dubious reasons. If this is the way that they handle customer service, and apparently this isn't the first time they've treated a customer like this, then it's amazing that anyone would host anything with them.