Google said that such negative reviews, unrelated to the actual business, “violates” its policies, and hence have been removed.

  • tigeruppercut
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    2 days ago

    Haven’t they been doing this for review bombing for a number of years now?

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      2 days ago

      Yes, and every review platform does it. It’s why this particular type of slacktivism is particularly useless.

      And it’s fair enough, it’s supposed to be a review of the establishment, not your political views.

      • Scubus@sh.itjust.works
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        1 day ago

        I dunno, i repeatedly left negative reviews for robinhood. They got removed a couple times, but i can log in to my second account and still see my review, so if you do it enough eventually itll slip through.

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          The trick is typically to give them two or three stars, and be a bit subtle in telling people the truth.