Here is Why you Can't Sue Ripoff Report (and What your Business can Do, Instead)

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Two years ago an attorney filed a lawsuit against Xcentric Ventures, the holding company of Ripoff Report. It did not work. Learn more about the legal case.

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Written by lyceum
2794 days ago

Ivan: I agree with you! ;) Hopefully, justice will prevail! :)

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Written by lyceum
2794 days ago

Ivan: I agree with you. I got a bad review about my former café and business center, placed on a popular discussion forum. The review was made anonymously. I knew that the search engines could pick it up, if I would respond, but I did it anyway. I replied to the wrong comment and I signed with my name and contact information. I didn't hear more about this case, after that.

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Written by ivanpw
2794 days ago

Martin,

That sucks, really. You know what, there are people who are just happy to bring a business down in the name of so-called "justice".

Let's take websites, for example. People are happy to report to Google for TOS violations (too many links, don't like the content, hate the author, too many ads, etc.) and get the websites penalized by Google. For what? Happy to serve in the name of the online community? Hmm...

If you don't like it, just don't visit it. Let the quality itself decides the survivability of the websites.

Just a rant :)

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Written by lyceum
2795 days ago

Ivan: I am a defender of freedom of speech and "Internet freedom". I am also for "legalizing privacy". But if you are spreading a lie, you have to be responsible for that you are saying.

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Written by ivanpw
2794 days ago

Martin,

Agreed. Unfortunately, from a business-person standpoint, I can't see any ways to react to slander, etc. posted on consumer sites. We can clarify things, but the bad posts are there and by all means will not be removed (especially on Ripoff Report). One way that I know is to push the bad reviews down from search engines (reputation management). Any ideas?

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Written by lyceum
2796 days ago

Ivan: You are right about that. But if someone has written a slander post on social media, that person has to be responsible for his / her actions.

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Written by ivanpw
2796 days ago

Martin,

I understand what you mean. Unfortunately, people would do that under the umbrella of "Internet freedom" :/ Of course, everything must be viewed on case-by-case basis. It's tough to be a lawyer for Internet-related lawsuits these days...

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Written by lyceum
2799 days ago

Is Ripoff Report concerned as a serious site, or is it a "ripoff" place for grumpy, negative people?

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Written by ivanpw
2797 days ago

Martin,

I'm always believing that the latter is the case :) But to see through the mist, I agree that nobody should sue someone over what they post on consumer services, community sites, social media sites etc. Because if they could, that would be the end of FB, Twitter, etc.

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