Yelp Says It Will Mark Pages of Businesses Accused of Racist Conduct • Hacker News Board

Re: Yelp Says It Will Mark Pages of Businesses Accused of Racist Conduct

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Post by whimsicalism » Sun, Oct 11, 2020, 3:16 PM UTC

zepto wrote: post #9

Why would this not be the subject of a defamation suit?

Are review sites normally the target of such suits or is it the poster of the review?

These would be linking to credible news outlets, so seems like the owner should take it up with them. My guess is it is hard to win a defamation suit against the lawyers for someone like the NYT.

Re: Yelp Says It Will Mark Pages of Businesses Accused of Racist Conduct

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Post by whimsicalism » Sun, Oct 11, 2020, 3:19 PM UTC

jgalt212 wrote: post #3

A noble effort, for sure, but to properly adjudicate this could consume boundless resources. On the other hand, paying Yelp money to take down such notices from a business's page could be a robust revenue stream. Didn't something like this happen before?

If you read the article, the "credible media outlet" would be adjudicating. If it is defamatory, they can take it up with the outlet.

Re: Yelp Says It Will Mark Pages of Businesses Accused of Racist Conduct

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Post by whimsicalism » Sun, Oct 11, 2020, 3:22 PM UTC

maxcbc wrote: post #5

So much for innocent until proven guilty

It's their free speech, and Yelp isn't a court of law. If there is an article reporting a business as engaged in racist practices, it is their right to link to such an article on the website Yelp owns.

Re: Yelp Says It Will Mark Pages of Businesses Accused of Racist Conduct

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Oct 11, 2020, 3:24 PM UTC

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Re: Yelp Says It Will Mark Pages of Businesses Accused of Racist Conduct

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Post by zarkov99 » Sun, Oct 11, 2020, 3:38 PM UTC

Yeah, there is no way this will be abused. #believeallaccusers

Re: Yelp Says It Will Mark Pages of Businesses Accused of Racist Conduct

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Post by ztusers » Sun, Oct 11, 2020, 3:50 PM UTC

I am anti-racist but this is too much.

Re: Yelp Says It Will Mark Pages of Businesses Accused of Racist Conduct

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Post by DeonPenny » Sun, Oct 11, 2020, 3:54 PM UTC

Can you mark yelp the company as racist on yelp cause they've definitely been accuse of racism. I don't know a specific time but my intuition of how the world works tells me this is true.

Re: Yelp Says It Will Mark Pages of Businesses Accused of Racist Conduct

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Post by LatteLazy » Sun, Oct 11, 2020, 5:28 PM UTC

Yelp says it will mark businesses as racist randomly then charge them to remove the marks.

Re: Yelp Says It Will Mark Pages of Businesses Accused of Racist Conduct

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Post by sieabahlpark » Sun, Oct 11, 2020, 5:52 PM UTC

whimsicalism wrote: post #13

maxcbc wrote: post #5

So much for innocent until proven guilty

It's their free speech, and Yelp isn't a court of law. If there is an article reporting a business as engaged in racist practices, it is their right to link to such an article on the website Yelp owns.

Except it's defamation?

Re: Yelp Says It Will Mark Pages of Businesses Accused of Racist Conduct

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Post by throwawaysea » Sun, Oct 11, 2020, 6:26 PM UTC

This feels like McCarthyism 2.0 and will be abused. I can see someone accusing a business then disagree with of racism even if their disagreement concerns unrelated matters (a lone incident of bad service, an unrelated political position from the owners, a refusal to grant a refund, whatever).