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> unless fraud or other serious crimes are involved Fraud: wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain Pretending to be so
by djrogers 8y ago
> unless fraud or other serious crimes are involved
Fraud: wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain
Pretending to be someone you're not to make money by lying is fraud, plain and simple.
- ilamont 8y agoSo every fake review is to be treated as a case of full-on criminal fraud? These cases need to be pursued in civil court, if at all. A better approach is for TripAdvisor, Amazon, et al is A) set up a better system to positively identify fake reviews and B) to ban both the providers and purchasers of fake reviews, including owners, senior executives, and colluding staff. If the disincentives are strong enough and consistently and fairly enforced a lot of bad actors will be cleared out in short order and responsible companies won't go near this stuff.
- toss1 8y agoThe person was making a business of it, it was not just a casual, occasional lie. This is systemically poisoning the well of public trust upon which society relies to function. We only have a prosperous society because we have widespread trustworthyness. You propose that breaking it down is meaningless.