{"id":132127,"date":"2016-11-29T23:11:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T06:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/29\/now-negative-reviews-cant-be-punished-by-retaliatory-companies.html"},"modified":"2016-12-15T22:04:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T05:04:09","slug":"now-negative-reviews-cant-be-punished-by-retaliatory-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/29\/now-negative-reviews-cant-be-punished-by-retaliatory-companies.html","title":{"rendered":"Now negative reviews can&#039;t be punished by retaliatory companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wait, what? Congress actually did something? Something bipartisan? Something bipartisan that actually makes sense and will help people stand up against companies and preserve a civil liberty?<\/p>\n<p><i>&#39;The Commerce Committee held a hearing on gag clauses a year ago and said it heard &quot;testimony from Ms. Jen Palmer, a plaintiff in Palmer v. KlearGear, where a company demanded the removal of a negative online review or payment of $3,500 in fines because the online merchant&rsquo;s terms of service included a non-disparagement clause. When the review was not taken down, the company reported the unpaid $3,500 to a credit reporting agency as an outstanding debt, which negatively impacted the Palmers&rsquo; credit.&quot; Palmer beat Kleargear in court, but only after a years-long ordeal.&#39;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Kudos (and five stars for the visit) to at least one fleeting bit of effective sanity on Capitol Hill. Almost gives me a fleeting bit of optimism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2016\/11\/congress-passes-law-protecting-right-to-post-negative-online-reviews\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/ybe9N-dCEG_t5rHEJGmTEBpWGK3C3wqmkCcNhIRhXuiDuJtexvviIJUfiIzlGhpTm7KfJbJlpm7z6hcvZclqZQEa000yHDX0zKAZQQ51T-h6hCw-5gjpwtAZ8TNsBws=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2016\/11\/congress-passes-law-protecting-right-to-post-negative-online-reviews\/'>It will soon be illegal to punish customers who criticize businesses online<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nConsumer Review Fairness Act bans customer gag clauses, awaits Obama signature.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/bFUp1aCuHL8'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wait, what? Congress actually did something? Something bipartisan? Something bipartisan that actually makes sense and will help people stand up against companies and preserve a civil liberty? &#39;The Commerce Committee held a hearing on gag clauses a year ago and said it heard &quot;testimony from Ms. Jen Palmer, a plaintiff in Palmer v. KlearGear, where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/29\/now-negative-reviews-cant-be-punished-by-retaliatory-companies.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Now negative reviews can&#039;t be punished by retaliatory companies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,3,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-blogging","category-civil-liberties"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131624,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/25\/rip-arnold-palmer.html","url_meta":{"origin":132127,"position":0},"title":"RIP, Arnold Palmer","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 25-Sep-16 8:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"My parents both golfed, golf was a regular thing on TV on the weekends. 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