https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42934447
LINKS TO
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/head-scores-victory-as-google-agrees-to-delete-school-reviews/
💡 there isn't much there there. "School reviews" were disabled in 2018. They are just turning off an out-dated set of old reviews.
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There is very little point in having "reviews" if bad reviews are criminalized. And, more and more, people are finding ways to do just that. Either the reviewer, or the platform, get punished, even for accurate reviews.
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For schools, the problem of "angry students making shit up" might be intractable. 🔥 or, angry parents making shit up.
Ultimately, saying you should use this third-party over that one is perilous speech. Such is life under a tyranny of the litigious.