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Yelp becomes weapon in online political war
« on: July 01, 2018, 09:39:11 pm »
Yelp becomes weapon in online political war

By Ali Breland - 07/01/18 05:34 PM EDT   

Yelp is becoming a surprising weapon in the online war between liberal activists and those on the right.

Both sides are increasingly using the website to score points in a number of political and cultural controversies.

The most recent incident came after White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was denied service at The Red Hen, a restaurant in Lexington, Va., because of the Trump administration's immigration policies.

Appalled conservatives quickly flocked to Yelp, a website which allows the public to comment and rate businesses, and overwhelmed the restaurant's page with negative reviews. Some online trolls even posted swastikas and pornography to deface the page.

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http://thehill.com/policy/technology/394922-yelp-becomes-weapon-in-online-political-war
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Re: Yelp becomes weapon in online political war
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2018, 09:41:20 pm »
yelp is a joke.  It has been one since its stupid rollout by what some company calls itself the Yellow Pages.
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« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2018, 09:45:30 pm »
       We ignore these patterns at our own peril.


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« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2018, 09:51:28 pm »
Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable soddingrotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less lot that make up England today. They've got white of egg in their veins, and their spunk is that watery it's a marvel they can breed.
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