{"id":42086,"date":"2014-05-19T20:31:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T02:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/19\/when-complaining-is-a-crime-only-criminals-will-complain.html"},"modified":"2014-05-20T11:44:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T17:44:51","slug":"when-complaining-is-a-crime-only-criminals-will-complain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/19\/when-complaining-is-a-crime-only-criminals-will-complain.html","title":{"rendered":"When complaining is a crime, only criminals will complain"},"content":{"rendered":"
Okay, not a crime but a tort. But the whole spread of "yeah, somewhere in that T&C section that everyone clicks through because who's going to ready twenty pages of small print legalese before running that program you've just downloaded is a clause that says that if you say anything mean about the product \/ service \/ vendor you will be liable to penalties" thing is a bit of corporate sleaze that needs to be killed. With fire.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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California bill would safeguard consumers\u2019 rights to criticize firms online<\/a>
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Okay, not a crime but a tort. But the whole spread of "yeah, somewhere in that T&C section that everyone clicks through because who's going to ready twenty pages of small print legalese before running that program you've just downloaded is a clause that says that if you say anything mean about the product \/ … Continue reading “When complaining is a crime, only criminals will complain”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,133],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-42086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-censorship","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32126,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/10\/lead-and-crime.html","url_meta":{"origin":42086,"position":0},"title":"Lead and crime","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 10-Jan-13 6:55am","format":false,"excerpt":"Looking at the recent studies that indicate that environmental lead pollution -- from leaded gasoline to lead-based paints -- were a significant factor in the rise of violent crime in the late 20th Century ... and the removal of that pollutant from the environment was a factor in the decline\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":864,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/08\/they_fight_crim.html","url_meta":{"origin":42086,"position":1},"title":"They fight crime!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 8-Nov-01 7:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"They fight crime! 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