Hostgator Softlayer Technologies Inc web hosting violated my first amendment right of free speech Houston, Texas

I love how the OP makes a ridiculous claim regarding the right to free speech and then resorts to a logical fallacy in order to support his delusions. Hey, OP! The people posting in this thread have been contributing to this website for years. Do you honestly believe that HostGator had these people contribute thousands of posts on many, many different companies for years on end in anticipation that you would one day post here?

I love how you play the good-guy victim then you use clone accounts in a lame attempt to demonize and "educate" me. Wow.... Hostgator uses very shady and mysterious business tactics against it's loyal customers. 

In fact... here is the terms you agreed to when setting up a site:

"Use of our services to infringe upon any copyright or trademark is
prohibited. This includes but is not limited to unauthorized copying of
music, books, photographs, or any other copyrighted work. The offer of
sale of any counterfeit merchandise of a trademark holder will result in
the immediate termination of your account. Any account found to be in
violation of anothers copyright will be expeditiously removed, or access
to the material disabled. Any account found to be in repeated violation
of copyright laws will be suspended and/or terminated from our hosting.
If you believe that your copyright or trademark is being infringed
upon, please email abuse@hostgator.com with the information required. A
list of required information may be found here. If the request is of a licensing issue, we may require further documentation."

http://www.hostgator.com/tos/tos.php

Your first amendment rights have not been violated. The company owns the hardware and internet space that you are renting from them. They have the right as the property owner to censor as they see fit. If you want to put up a site to exercise your free speech, then buy your own server and web hosting capabilities.

Hey, OP... all of that time you claim to have spent on legal research? Take a few minutes and research the First Amendment. It does not apply to your situation. The right to free speech simply means that the government cannot limit your right to free speech (in theory, anyways.)

The First Amendment does not apply to privately owned web hosting companies. This company was well within its right to take down material that they could potentially be held liable for. If you want to challenge Best Buy's take-down request that is one thing but your web host is not in the wrong here.

I'm cancelling tomorrow!

Yes, it's unfortunate when companies submit DMCA complaints, but when Hostgator receives them, tey have to act in a timely manner, as require by our Datacenter, especially in cases where the DMCA complaint is filed with the DC (Softlayer in this case).
When that happens, typically, we email the customer at the email address on file, and let him know he has 48 hours to reply and contest the dmca complaint, or remove the content.
If we don't reply to those complaints then we become liable because it's hosted on our network.