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Court Rules Against Online Anonymity

Posted by Unknown on from the turns-out-anonymous-coward-is-a-cat dept.

cstacy writes "The Virginia Court of Appeals has ruled (PDF) that people leaving negative feedback for a carpet cleaning service are not allowed to remain anonymous. Yelp must unmask seven critics to the carpet cleaner, who feels that they might not even be real customers."

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  1. And thus ends Yelp. by Kenja · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Since the whole point is to give unbiased feed back and the chance of repercussions by definition creates a bias, that's more or less the end of that.

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    1. Re:And thus ends Yelp. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Can't support that enough. Here in Germany, they bought a local competitor, and suddenly all the positive reviews disappeared unless you pay for an "advertisement package".