The human race needed to survive so groups of individuals formed organizational units called “companies” that were then used to fuck everyone else. Viola! Stratification, and it was good.

Sure, not everyone survived or ended up better off but that was the whole point, wasn’t it?

Now a Virginia court has given companies just a bit more power. Yeah.

You’ve heard about Yelp? It’s one of the few places where disgruntled customers can strike back when they’ve been wronged.

The war between reviewers and companies is an old one. It turns out that businesses don’t like being criticized. In the old days reviewing was an actual profession and people were hired by newspapers to perform that function. In one case a food critic reported seeing an open can of beans in the kitchen in a restaurant that purported to only use fresh ingredients.

The restaurant flipped their lid.
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