You don't have a right to business or a good reputation. If I act like a jerk and you accurately report it to people and they decide they don't like me because

You don't have a right to business or a good reputation. If I act like a jerk and you accurately report it to people and they decide they don't like me because of it, the resulting damage to my reputation is my fault, not yours. And remember, what LulzSec did to HBGary Federal is hack their servers and leak their private data. If LulzSec's techniques were limited to sending strongly worded letters, I don't think they would be controversial at all.