PissedConsumer Denied Section 230 Immunity and Can’t Shake Extortion Claim—Vo v. Opinion Corp.
1 06 2012By Eric Goldman
Vo Group v. Opinion Corp., 8758/11 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. May 22, 2012)
PissedConsumer is a consumer review site occupying the same market niche as Ripoff Report. It only wants negative consumer reviews of businesses (as signaled by its name), and its basic business model is to rank the negative consumer reviews highly in Google search results and then charge the businesses money to take the edge off that indexing. Vo Group got snared in PissedConsumer’s scheme and chose not to pony up the requested cash ($5k) to PissedConsumer. Instead it sued PissedConsumer for a potpourri of claims. PissedConsumer moved to dismiss the lawsuit, and the resulting opinion is a mixed bag. Some highlights:
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