If you talk smack on Yelp, it's coming down.
What's the News: Sign here, here, here, and here—that’s the first thing your doctor’s office asks you to do. Chances are, you’re not reading the forms too closely. But tucked in there might be a little clause that goes something like this: “all your online reviews are belong to us.” And if you refuse to sign it, they’ll refuse to see you. Doctors and dentists have started including this language, provided by an organization called Medical Justice
, in their releases in an effort to keep negative online reviews from going up on sites like Yelp. But, as Ars Technica found
, there are about a million different ways that this is both silly and pointless. How the Heck:
First of all, although the clause is said to be for use only against nonpatients who post fraudulent reviews (according to the ...
