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Try being listed by some angry vengeful anonymous person on that rip-off report website that will never remove anything under any circumstances (including lawsu
by pstack 13y ago
Try being listed by some angry vengeful anonymous person on that rip-off report website that will never remove anything under any circumstances (including lawsuit - and the founder claims to live a reclusive life in a mansion guarded by several security persons and always has body guards when he goes out). Anyone can make claims about you. Even if you didn't do business with them. Even if you don't even HAVE a business. They can list your name, address, domains, phone numbers, email address, and anything else they want. They, in turn, don't have to list anything. And google includes their ranks pretty high up on search results.
Have a jilted ex-lover? Have a pissy neighbor that is upset at you? Well, they can get meaningful revenge on you through this service. Every time someone google's you, they can find out all sorts of hideous things about you that are supposedly true. And there's nothing you can do about it.
Oh, you can subscribe to their corporate service for a LOT of money. I forgot about that. Of course, all it will do is put your RESPONSE to the vile and illegitimate complaints at the top of the page, instead of the bottom. It will still, however, show up on search results and so will the vile bullshit the anonymous person posted about you.
The Ed whateverhisnameis guy behind the site is one of the most disgusting and useless human beings on the planet.
- makomk 13y agoNot just that. Thanks to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act the operators of sites like Rip-Off Report have absolute immunity from legal action over their site's content so long as it's not copyright-infringing - it's not even possible to get an injunction forcing them to remove it. Doesn't matter if they know it's defamatory, or if they've made it impossible to find the original poster, or if the original poster can't remove it anyway, or even if they're openly making a profit from charging people to take down "defamatory" entries; they're still totally immune. (There's a workaround: if you can find the original poster you can sue them and get an injunction forcing the site to take down their posts in that lawsuit. Most of these sites make that impossible though.)
- telephonetemp 13y agoThe worst thing about them seems to be that they accept reports about private persons, who are much less likely than a business to have the funds to pursue false claims. It is also clear that their attitude stinks. To quote a recent Forbes article on Ripoff Report [1], >Asked about a comment alleging another woman had herpes, Magedson responds: “This f—— broad probably did something.” Edit: And look at the comment section on that article. [1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/05/09/love-it-or-hate-it-ripoffreport-is-in-expansion-mode/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/05/09/love-it-or...
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