USA (in California) to Stop Trying To Ban Consumer Reviews

California Tells Businesses: Stop Trying To Ban Consumer Reviews.

http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2014/09/california-tells-businesses-stop-trying-to-ban-consumer-reviews-forbes-cross-post.htm

"Increasingly, businesses are looking for ways to suppress or erase consumers’ negative online reviews of them. In particular, we’ve recently seen a proliferation of contract clauses purporting to stop consumers from reviewing businesses online. Those overreaching contract clauses have never been a good idea, but last week, the idea got worse. Gov. Jerry Brown signed AB 2365 into law, to be codified as California Civil Code Sec. 1670.8. The law is a first-in-the-nation statute to stop businesses from contractually gagging their consumers."