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Re:Some hotels have charged visitors for bad reviews by Retric on Sunday January 28, 2018 @04:57PM (#16253829)
There are limits on what contracts can and can't cover in terms of free speech. Requiring silence is a common item, so zero reviews may been an option. However, requiring a specific type of review aka only positive ones is a tricky subject that was unlikely to be legal.
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Re:Some hotels have charged visitors for bad reviews by wildmusings on Sunday January 28, 2018 @05:43PM (#16254039)
You can contract for people to tell lies even. That's what celebrity endorsement contracts essentially are, for example.

I don't think this has anything to do with free speech, but more about fair business practices.

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Re:Some hotels have charged visitors for bad reviews by emodendroket on Sunday January 28, 2018 @05:51PM (#16254082)
> You can contract for people to tell lies even. That's what celebrity endorsement contracts essentially are, for example.

I think there are problems with casting it this way. You can get in trouble for making false claims in ads.

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Re:Some hotels have charged visitors for bad reviews by wildmusings on Sunday January 28, 2018 @06:06PM (#16254140)
Hence the tiny text on the bottom of the screen about "paid actors" or similar. But again, that's about prohibiting unfair business practices, misleading advertising in this case. It has nothing to do with the legal capability of the actors to contract to tell lies, and nothing to do with free speech (except that it's a limit on the free speech of the actors and the company).
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