TEXAS — Backlash, corporate and otherwise, from Texas’ restrictive new abortion law has been swift, and now website hosting provider GoDaddy has taken a stand. 

Under the new law, women may not obtain an abortion in Texas after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which is often as soon as six weeks into pregnancy, typically before a woman knows she’s pregnant.

What’s unusual about the law is it puts the onus of enforcement on private citizens who are empowered to sue doctors and anyone else who helps a woman obtain an abortion after the specified period.

With that in mind, anti-abortion group Texas Right to Life set up a website encouraging people to report those in violation of the law. Critics have referred to it as a “snitch” or “whistleblower” website.

According to a report in the New York Times, GoDaddy, claiming the group is in violation of its terms of service, has given Texas Right to Life 24 hours to find another host for the site. 

“We have informed prolifewhistleblower.com they have 24 hours to move to another provider for violating our terms of service,” a GoDaddy spokesperson told the New York Times.

A portion of GoDaddy’s service terms reads, “You will not collect or harvest (or permit anyone else to collect or harvest) any User Content (as defined below) or any non-public or personally identifiable information about another User or any other person or entity without their express prior written consent.”

Protesters, the New York Times reports, have spent the last few days flooding the website with fake tips in order to essentially render it useless.

Texas law stipulates complainants can seek up to $10,000 in damage compensation if the accused is found guilty, which critics have characterized as a bounty.

Meanwhile, growing sentiment has emerged on social media encouraging people to boycott Texas-based businesses.

The same movement of people advocating boycotts is also encouraging musicians, theater companies and others to skip the Lone Star State.