[ga] Abusive Domain? to: Another Attempt At Using the Courts To Suppress an Online Review

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Well is http://www.yelp.com/ now to be considered an "Abusive
Domain Name" or not?

  I would say that both parties have a legitimate issue here.  Mr./Dr.?
Biegel is rightly that he may have been unduly slandered and is taking
the appropriate legal action to address same.  Yet, Mr. Christopher
Norberg may be trying to be a good samaritan in his attempt to inform 
the public to the degree he can and knows how, using the Internet as 
his means.  I hope Mr. Christopher Norberg has the evidence in abundance 
to substantiate his complaint and claim towards Mr./Dr.? Biegel...  If 
not, Mr./Dr.? Biegel will likely prevail and as such it than may become 
prudent if not necessary for ICANN to direct to the registrar of 
yelp.com to modify whatever policies necessary to vet such complaints in 
a manner that is more substancial at a minimum.  Otherwise I would 
suggest that yelp.com would need to be brought down immediately so that 
the public would not be duped or in any small way, misinformed...

See:
A San Francisco chiropractor has
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/08/MNN81559L2.DTL
sued a local artist over negative reviews published on Yelp, the popular
Web site that rates businesses.  Christopher Norberg, 26, of San
Francisco posted the first review in November 2007 after visiting Steven 
Biegel at the Advanced Chiropractic Center on Valencia Street. In the 
six-paragraph write-up, Norberg criticized Biegel's billing practices
and 
said the chiropractor was being dishonest with insurance companies.
...The
Electronic Frontier Foundation, a local nonprofit that supports free
speech 
online, is considering helping with Norberg's defense. Matt Zimmerman,
an 
attorney with the group, said Biegel will get far more negative
publicity from
filing the lawsuit than from a bad review on Yelp. He said the
foundation 
is seeing more and more cases of people trying to use the courts because
they're unhappy with postings on the Internet.

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