Protecting Free Speech: Why Yelp Is Marking Businesses That Sue Their Customers

Re:Protecting Free Speech: Why Yelp Is Marking Businesses Th... by andybak on Friday July 29, 2016 @03:58AM (#12185520)

I'm not generally a distrustful person, panda888 - but how come you created a new account to post this comment?

Maybe you could post a little bit of background info about yourself and your lack of connections to Yell to avert any suspicion that you're not a genuine disinterested individual.

In any case - from my memory there were stories about this in the mainstream press. I can't vouch for their veracity but if you bother to reply then I'll try and find a few references.

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Re:Protecting Free Speech: Why Yelp Is Marking Businesses Th... by csydas on Friday July 29, 2016 @07:27AM (#12186106)

off topic, is that what green highlighting on usernames means? age of account?

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Re:Protecting Free Speech: Why Yelp Is Marking Businesses Th... by pbhjpbhj on Friday July 29, 2016 @07:45AM (#12186196)

Yes, green accounts are new, not sure the definition of new being used though.

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Re:Protecting Free Speech: Why Yelp Is Marking Businesses Th... by lsmarigo on Friday July 29, 2016 @04:11AM (#12185555)

Honestly I don't even know which way is up anymore with the yelp extortion fiasco, so much misinformation and yelps defense sounds credible vs some random angry small business owners. My cynicism says they're executing the ultimate public relations and smear campaign against anyone who dares speak up, panda888 being some low level drone in a messaging agency they hired whose radar picked up this thread /tinfoilhat

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