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Writing fake online reviews could be made illegal

A plan to crack down on online rip-offs has been outlined by the government.

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AstonJ

AstonJ

I thought it already was! :upside_down_face:

ohm

ohm

“[…] by the government”

What government? I guess, since this is BBC, that it’s the UK government, which means diddly squat for the rest of the world.

I believe it is in Denmark as well. However, online reviews are only ever of use when it’s not on the company’s own web pages. If you control the platform and get a bad review, you’d just delete it. There’s many 3rd party review platforms, but most have the same problem, that they are paid by the company’s and therefore the companies control the platform and can have bad reviews deleted. There’s been many cases of this on the Danish based Trustpilot.

AstonJ

AstonJ

Amazon are not too bad when it comes to writing your own reviews - they’ve never censored any of mine… but others (like Waitrose!) are really bad, sometimes they give you a ‘money off voucher’ to keep you quiet as well :joy:

It might be worth checking… I always thought it was here, but clearly turned out not to be (if the BBC are right).

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