Yelp Says It Will Mark Pages of Businesses Accused of Racist Conduct
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Re: Yelp Says It Will Mark Pages of Businesses Accused of Racist Conduct
#2What could go wrong?
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#3A 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?
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#4How much will they charge businesses to get it removed from their pages ?
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#5So much for innocent until proven guilty
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#6A 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?
Good intention or not, it reeks of ochlocracy and ignorance, and throw in potential quasi-extortion-for-revenue tactics.
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#7Hard to tell if this is (well intentioned, but misguided) OR (They know how easy it will be to abuse, and really want money).
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#8I’d be curious to see an example - there aren’t any in the article.
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#9Why would this not be the subject of a defamation suit?
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#10am hearing that racists will be self reporting their own businesses.