<story><title>A little SF personal injury case threatens &apos;most important law&apos; on the Internet</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-online-publishers-20160909-snap-story.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>OliverJones</author><text>Working for a nonprofit, I once was ripped off by a service provider. I posted a Yelp review describing the facts of the case and saying &amp;quot;would-be customers, be careful.&amp;quot; This service provider retaliated by posting false and malicious statements about my character.  Lucky we had a pro-bono lawyer, or this would have cost me thousands.  As it is, it did cost the nonprofit thousands (in the ripoff). We wasted time too.&lt;p&gt;(Hint: it&amp;#x27;s really hard to collect after you get a favorable judgement in small claims court. Small claims court is a waste of time unless you&amp;#x27;re making a claim against a deep-pocketed multinational corporation.)&lt;p&gt;This experience taught me that Yelp is useless for anything except five-star reviews. The personal risk of using Yelp to tell the truth about bad service is simply too high.</text></comment>
<story><title>A little SF personal injury case threatens &apos;most important law&apos; on the Internet</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-online-publishers-20160909-snap-story.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tomohawk</author><text>Since sites like facebook seem to be taking more of an active role in censoring&amp;#x2F;curating comments and content, it seems like this exemption would no longer apply to them at some point.</text></comment>