The article below was sumbitted to HN a while back- rather interesting. Backstory: The East Bay Express published a story criticizing Yelp and accusing them of

The article below was sumbitted to HN a while back- rather interesting. Backstory: The East Bay Express published a story criticizing Yelp and accusing them of extortion. Yelp CEO responds, criticizing the article's use of anonymous sources and general accusations. The article below is a response to the CEO's using named sources along with very specific accusations of what yelp did wrong. http://www.eastbayexpress.com/eastbay/yelp-extortion-allegations-stack-up/Content?oid=1176984 http://www.eastbayexpress.com/eastbay/yelp-extortion-allegat... *this is not the same article linked to in the OPs post.