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California Tells Businesses: Stop Trying To Ban Consumer Reviews

Posted by samzenpus on from the use-your-words dept.

ericgoldman writes Some businesses are so paranoid about negative consumer reviews that they have contractually banned their customers from writing reviews or imposed fines on consumers who bash them. California has told businesses to stop it. AB 2365--signed by Governor Brown yesterday, and the first law of its kind in the nation--says any contract provisions restricting consumer reviews are void, and simply including an anti-review clause in the contract can trigger penalties of $2,500.

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  1. Re:reviews by Em+Adespoton · · Score: 5, Funny

    Reviews are like a box of chocolate.

    The person with the loose filling always gets the caramel instead of the strawberry truffle they were expecting.

  2. Re:Please can by future+assassin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yah ok anonymous coward slashdot post police.

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  3. Re:reviews by geekoid · · Score: 4, Funny

    no, those are nougat. As far as my family knows, the never come with caramal :)

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  4. Re:Map of a box of chocolates by mwvdlee · · Score: 4, Funny

    To be fair, if all of them end up near Vladivostock instead of just some random location, it's probably the map at fault.

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