Dubious Business Practices and Defamation.
I fail to see how the criticism of a business for the product or service that they are offering as being too good to be true as slander. I also wonder when customer service has to be conducted by Shill and Bully techniques.
When a venture fails and the company that was instrumental in that failure "re-brands", it is only reasonable that references to the old entity be removed from the public eye. However, when requests to the remove the "offending" information have been followed with intimidation threats, these requests to "take-down" pages containing the references have been difficult to entertain.
In addition to the initial Shill comment that was posted on this blog by a visitor, various attempts at impersonation of those involved in reaction to my postings were detected. These took the form:
Some Links:
Google search, 30 April 2012, for the exact URL from Mountain View, California.
I fail to see how the criticism of a business for the product or service that they are offering as being too good to be true as slander. I also wonder when customer service has to be conducted by Shill and Bully techniques.
When a venture fails and the company that was instrumental in that failure "re-brands", it is only reasonable that references to the old entity be removed from the public eye. However, when requests to the remove the "offending" information have been followed with intimidation threats, these requests to "take-down" pages containing the references have been difficult to entertain.
In addition to the initial Shill comment that was posted on this blog by a visitor, various attempts at impersonation of those involved in reaction to my postings were detected. These took the form:
- A domain registration in the name of a company that it was thought I was associated. (The website for the registration then had links posted on it in an apparent attempt to discredit the company for that I was supposedly connected.)
- Emails were sent to me both anonymously and in the names of other interested parties.
- Invitations to join social websites such as LinkedIn were received, presumably in an attempt to find out more information about me.
Some Links:
- Is Facebook feedback defamation - or honest criticism of poor customer service? By Eileen Brown, ZDNet, April 3, 2012 - See the comment by Dr_Zinj (below)
- Old Testamentarian
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Google search, 30 April 2012, for the exact URL from Mountain View, California.
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