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It Will Soon Be Illegal To Punish US Customers Who Criticize Businesses Online (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Congress has passed a law protecting the right of U.S. consumers to post negative online reviews without fear of retaliation from companies. The bipartisan Consumer Review Fairness Act was passed by unanimous consent in the US Senate, a Senate Commerce Committee announcement said. The bill, introduced in 2014, was already approved by the House of Representatives and now awaits President Obama's signature.
The Consumer Review Fairness Act -- full text available here -- voids any provision in a form contract that prohibits or restricts customers from posting reviews about the goods, services, or conduct of the company providing the product or service. It also voids provisions that impose penalties or fees on customers for posting online reviews as well as those that require customers to give up the intellectual property rights related to such reviews.
The Consumer Review Fairness Act -- full text available here -- voids any provision in a form contract that prohibits or restricts customers from posting reviews about the goods, services, or conduct of the company providing the product or service. It also voids provisions that impose penalties or fees on customers for posting online reviews as well as those that require customers to give up the intellectual property rights related to such reviews.
I could see this being a bill that Trump would want his friends in the house and senate to quickly get to work on writing out of existence. They will probably have lawyers preparing a case to bring to trial soon in hopes of getting a court to overturn it.
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Look, the only reason I have been posting on Slashdot is that the threatened to sue me if I told the truth. Their posts are made of the parts of pigs that butchers throw away. The force their threaders to work 16 hour days, with no overtime, for only $5 a day. Their vowels are purchased from east Asian pirates, who when they are not stealing them, are kidnapping small dogs and harvesting all the vowels from their organs.
God that feels good to get off my chest.
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Yea, silly question. Obviously yours is hurting big time.
This was already posted a couple of days ago, why is it being posted again?
Seriously, how lazy is crap dot becoming these days. The only difference is this time there is a break in the middle of the topic.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/11/29/2127237/it-will-soon-be-illegal-to-punish-customers-who-criticize-businesses-online
Congress looking out for people rather than companies???
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Near the end it states:
"A [contract form] provision shall not be considered void under this bill to the extent that it prohibits disclosure or submission of, or reserves the right of a person or business that hosts online consumer reviews or comments to remove, certain: [...] (3) law enforcement records;
Since everything on the internet is now a de-facto "law enforcement record", it follows that a contract provision is not void if it prohibits any disclosures on the internet. Right? :D
Yay! Freedom for the win!
Hang on, it's anti-business. Goddam cormanusts!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
But when will it be illegal for editors to re-post the same stories over and over on Slashdot? I'm not even a paid editor who's job it should be in part to at least keep up with what has already been posted, but I've spotted several stories today that are re-posts of things seen here in recent days. It just isn't that hard to review just the headlines of the stories when you check in to Slashdot going back to the last time you checked in. If simple (and simple minded) readers can spot the dups then someone being compensated as an editor should reasonably be expected to do the same.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Why are liberals interfering with its my rights as a business? Who is the government to deny me the ability to retaliate against negative posters?
The Oracle EULA (2012) includes the clause: "Publication Prohibition. You shall not publish any results of benchmark tests run on the SOFTWARE."
I wonder if this new law means we will start seeing them.
I see no evidence that the new editors were trained at all. Neither in the selection of new stories nor in the basic proof reading of the summaries. If Tim taught the new staff anything it was what they could get away with. How did I miss out on the job of being a Slashdot editor? I've always wanted a job that involved no physical labor and no mental labor and no oversight of performance.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
I almost think this is a trap (along with that new law putting E85 into cars). It's a damned if you do/damned if you don't. On the one hand it's exactly the kind of law Trump opposes (he wants to expand liable law and make a more UK-like system over here) but OTOH it's a very popular law with billions of dollars behind it (Yelp, Google, Uber, Amazon. Basically any web based company that deals in information).
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It ever was not.
"Corporations" is "Soylent Green", I mean "People". Didn't you get the memo?
Too bad others felt the same way, as we're getting exactly that. I've never wanted such a job. The job I've always wanted is the one where I'm in flow for six hours at a stretch (at least once per day), there are more feedback loops than you can shake a stick at, mainly anchored in equally competent peers who likewise wouldn't have it any other way.
NASA, during the Apollo program, had many pockets of competence where The Right Stuff stretched as far as the eye could see.
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Yes, parts of NASA on the ground basically looked like this.
Imagine the caliber of people you need to hire by default to make this strategy viable.
Gerald Weinberg's second rule of acquisition:
(2) No matter how it looks at first, it's always a people problem.
Moral of the story: hire only those who dream for the stars, the kind of stars where Easy Street has no name.
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Trump is the epitome of a thin skinned person. I can see this being a "yuge" issue for him as he absolutely despises criticism in any shape or form, and for businesses? Forget about it.
And yes we all know he can't 'pen away' laws but he can talk and there's ~1/2 a country that listens to his idiocy and thinks it's viable. The pulpit he speaks from went from "guy talking shit" to "commander in chief" so there will be movement behind his ideas.
Do you not think a president Trump won't call out and deride dissenters?
Sorry you got so offended by his comment, do you need a safe space to hide from criticism against Trump? Should I call the PC police?
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There is only one reason that congress passed it now. Because they know Obama will not sign it. They want this dead before Trump could get in office and make it a reality.