Anti-Malware Maker Files Lawsuit Over Bad Review (csoonline.com)

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 4, 2016 @10:11PM from the hearts-and-minds dept.

itwbennett writes: In a lawsuit filed January 8, 2016, Enigma Software, maker of anti-malware software SpyHunter, accuses self-help portal Bleeping Computer of making 'false, disparaging, and defamatory statements.' At issue: a bad review posted by a user in September, 2014. The lawsuit also accuses Bleeping Computer of profiting from driving traffic to competitor Malwarebytes via affiliate links: 'Bleeping has a direct financial interest in driving traffic and sales to Malwarebytes and driving traffic and sales away from ESG.' Perhaps not helping matters, one of the first donations to a fund set up by Bleeping Computer to help with legal costs came from Malwarebytes.

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Re: Can't have a opinion anymore by halivar · 2016-02-05 00:46 · Score: 1, Offtopic

We Europeans are fine with this. There are thoughts that society is frankly better off without. Orthodoxy and conformity is safety.
You don't see this attitude as at all sinister in its implications? It's positively Orwellian.