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Re:When We Lose Antibiotics, Here's Everything Else We'll Lo... by acchow on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @06:39PM (#6772088)
Intriguing to think about. But what will probably happen is the lack of controls will allow for higher profits - the companies that kill people will have way more money to pay off Yelp to censor bad reviews.
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Re:When We Lose Antibiotics, Here's Everything Else We'll Lo... by dd36 on Thursday November 21, 2013 @09:29AM (#6774788)
The companies would pay to post fake reviews.

Oh wait. They already do that!

Deceptive marketing thresholds and punishments would have to be much higher.

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Re:When We Lose Antibiotics, Here's Everything Else We'll Lo... by Ygg2 on Thursday November 21, 2013 @03:30AM (#6773652)
True, but Yelp would lose all credibility, so it wouldn't be used to determine anything than dining out.
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