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Complaint Remover is a special service that says it gets rid of "defamatory" and "negative links" on the internet for you:
Complaint Remover Gets Rid Of "Negative Links," Including LOLCats
Complaint Remover is a special service that says it gets rid of "defamatory" and "negative links" on the internet for you: The immediate goal of our service is to stop defamation by positioning links on the Search Engines and by appeals to law to remove negative information. We send cease and desist letters and if necessary, file legal actions against the perpetrators and Internet service providers contributing to the unjust defamation of our members.Their site has an online chat function with a customer service rep and we decided to ask if they could help us take a crap all over free speech, and how much that would cost... More »
9:53 AM on Thu Mar 6 2008
By Ben Popken
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Latest by n/a: That's sort of impressive though they're willing to stalk and murder people and sit in jail to protect their clients, when their clients didn't ask them to. Sort of like gee, I just wanted that "Slap_mc sux in bed" pushed more »
lawsuits
InfomercialScams.com Gets Sued Constantly
Over at the Consumer Law & Policy blog there is a post about the legal troubles of Justin Leonard, the owner of InfomercialScams.com, a site that posts unedited reviews of various infomercial products. More »
lawsuits
Donning Copyright Cloak, DirectBuy Forbids Posting Of Cease And Desist Letter Sent To Consumer Opinion Site
DirectBuy got more pushback than they expected after sending a cease-and-desist to InfomercialScams.com over the site's users calling the direct to consumer seller of furniture and home supplies a "scam" and a "nightmare." Absurdly, DirectBuy even tried to threaten legal action if their cease and desist was published, saying it was copyrighted! More »
After first saying no, Verizon decided to allow a pro-choice group to send text massages, but in so doing, didn't disclaim the right the block text messages they deemed inappropriate in the future. [NYT]
complaints
Allen ordered a fence from Lowes. It cost $3500. It sucks. If you lean onit, it becomes dislodged and loose. His dogs were able to escape just by pushing on the gate. There's a two-foot gap underneath the bottom of the fence. Allen refused to pay until Lowes fixed it.
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Lowes Resorts To Legal Bullying Instead Fixing Their Horrible $3500 Fence Job
Allen ordered a fence from Lowes. It cost $3500. It sucks. If you lean onit, it becomes dislodged and loose. His dogs were able to escape just by pushing on the gate. There's a two-foot gap underneath the bottom of the fence. Allen refused to pay until Lowes fixed it.
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target
Target Targets Blogger
It seems our buddy Target Corp. doesn't like it when bloggers post store policies on the Internets. Their rational response? Duh, lawsuit. More »
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