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Nobody is threatened into using cryptocurrencies, yet they exist and can be used as money. Yes, companies can choose who gets to review pre-release products. N

Nobody is threatened into using cryptocurrencies, yet they exist and can be used as money. Yes, companies can choose who gets to review pre-release products. Negative pre-release reviews come out anyway, and if you don't trust them you can wait, as you say. Reviewers who aren't trusted by people looking for reviews rapidly lose their audience and stop being given product access. You guys are talking as if product reviews are some theoretical thing that don't exist today, that only a government can supply. Reviews obviously do exist and billions of people rely on them every month. There is just no problem that specifically requires the US government to step in here.

eesmith 1y ago
> and can be used as money Yes, and so can Canadian Tire money, but try paying your taxes in scrip or Bitcoin. > and if you don't trust them you can wait Nope. Models numbers are cheap. Each chain can get their own model number, updated every six months. You wait and the numbers all change. > Reviewers who aren't trusted by people You're smoking the good stuff! "Up to 30% of online reviews are fake and consumers can't tell the difference", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33472922 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33472922 "Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39433451 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39433451 See also the comments of HNers who find it hard to find trusted reviewers. How do you find a trusted reviewer for air purifiers, which that last link concerns?