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acchow on Nov 20, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: When We Lose Antibiotics, Here's Everything Else W...

Intriguing to think about. But what will probably happen is the lack of controls will allow for higher profits - the companies that kill people will have way more money to pay off Yelp to censor bad reviews.

dd36 on Nov 21, 2013 | [–]

The companies would pay to post fake reviews.

Oh wait. They already do that!

Deceptive marketing thresholds and punishments would have to be much higher.

Ygg2 on Nov 21, 2013 | [–]

True, but Yelp would lose all credibility, so it wouldn't be used to determine anything than dining out.

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