MetaFilter Founder Says Vacation Firm Forged Court Docs To Scotch Review

IonOtter (629215) writes Matt Haughey, founder of MetaFilter, has challenged a Cease & Desist letter from Sundance Vacations, a seller of time-shares with a reputation for aggressive sales tactics and suppression of criticism. Only this time, it seems that the plaintiff may have forged court documents ordering Mr. Haughey, Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines to remove any and all mentions of the links and posts in question. Legal blog Popehat has picked this up as well, prompting Ken White to wryly note, "...Sundance Vacations is about to learn about the Streisand Effect." The story is gaining traction, and being picked up by Boing-Boing, as well as hitting the first page of search results on Google.

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Re:Do not ever

[radtea]

Dude even blocked the doorway after we got up and tried to leave. I eventually threatened to call the police, and he finally gave up.

I was at a home show a while back and talked to a guy whose entire business was "getting people out of timeshare agreements".

That's how awful time-shares are, and how effective they are at bullying people into bad decisions: breaking time-share agreements is a viable business model!