Another Attempt At Using the Courts To Suppress an Online Review

gandhi_2 writes with this excerpt from the SF Chronicle: "A San Francisco chiropractor has sued a local artist over negative reviews published on Yelp, the popular Web site that rates businesses. Christopher Norberg, 26, of San Francisco posted the first review in November 2007 after visiting Steven Biegel at the Advanced Chiropractic Center on Valencia Street. In the six-paragraph write-up, Norberg criticized Biegel's billing practices and said the chiropractor was being dishonest with insurance companies. ...The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a local nonprofit that supports free speech online, is considering helping with Norberg's defense. Matt Zimmerman, an attorney with the group, said Biegel will get far more negative publicity from filing the lawsuit than from a bad review on Yelp. He said the foundation is seeing more and more cases of people trying to use the courts because they're unhappy with postings on the Internet."

Re:EFF is nice to have around

[trolltalk.com]

It's the same with the chiropractor not having a clue. How is this libel?"

"Norberg, who has a day job designing furniture, had no complaints about his medical care - only how much he was billed for it. In his original review, he wrote, "I don't think good business means charging people whatever you feel like hoping they'll pay without a fuss."

It's certainly no worse than what we see lawyers try to pull every day, padding their billing hours.

God greeted the lawyer at the pearly gates.

God: "Come on in, you're the oldest person up here."

Lawyer: "How's that? I'm only 43?"

God: "Not according to your hours billed records ..."

... though a more apt comparison might be between chiropractors and scientologists ... birds of a feather.

"Local Non-Profit"

[SoundGuyNoise]

I got a bit of kick out of a line in the article. While /. readers nationwide and internationally are more than familiar with the EFF, the article refers to it as a "local non-profit," since that is in fact where they are HQ'd.

Re:Long history

[Fear the Clam]

Chiropractors have had many detractors over the years and have a long history of using political manipulation

But that crack from the manipulation is so goooood.

Re:this was modded +5 insightful?????

[kno3]

hey thats true!
I think that we should join together and find more people like us so that we can form a group. Then we should try and change the world by getting everybody else who isn't as intelligent as us to come round to our way of thinking!

You're only saying that...

[tkrotchko]

You're only saying that because your spine needs to be aligned.