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8 Yelp Reviewers Hit With $1.2 Million Defamation Suits

Posted by timothy on from the slapp-on-the-back dept.

New submitter goodboi writes: A Silicon Valley building contractor is suing 8 of its critics over the reviews they posted on Yelp. The negative reviews were filtered out by Yelp's secretive ranking system, but in court documents filed earlier this month, Link Corporation claims that the bad publicity cost over $165,000 in lost business.

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  1. This is your Constitution on Market economics. by blue+trane · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Even the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the EPA had to consider cost when determining what was "necessary and proper." Cost trumps the freedoms guaranteed in the bill of rights. If my free speech costs someone money, the Bill of Rights has no standing. Government at least is prevented (heavily restricted) from prosecuting people for their speech. Business has no such Constitutional amendment restraining its desire to quelch speech it thinks offensive.

    Business is fundamentally undemocratic and unconstitutional.