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Google steps in after McDonald's gets ‘review bombed’ over arrest in UnitedHealth CEO's murder (www.hindustantimes.com)
submitted 5 months ago by LuuTuyen@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Google said that such negative reviews, unrelated to the actual business, “violates” its policies, and hence have been removed.

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[–] Melt@lemm.ee 209 points 5 months ago

Users left reviews for at least three McDonald's locations in or around Altoona, Pennsylvania, with dozens of people leaving one star ratings and complaining about "rats." Others more explicitly called out "snitches."

"This location has rats in the kitchen that will make you sick and your insurance isn't going to cover it," one reviewer wrote.

Based reviewers

[–] MrVilliam@lemm.ee 113 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I for one believe that the question of whether a food service establishment has rats is very relevant to the business.

The character of the staff and clientele as well as the financial state of the staff as a direct result of how stingy their employer is can also be very relevant. Do you want to eat somewhere if the people preparing your food there will sell their morals and decency? Kinda seems likely that I could pay somebody there $100 to put their pubes into your quarter pounder.

[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You aren't a CEO though.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

We can tell by the still being alive part.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 6 points 5 months ago

And? CEOs seem to be welcome there.

[–] morriscox@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Maybe the person only heard of the murder, saw some pictures, and didn't know about all the "justice warriors" foaming at the mouth. I know plenty of people who hardly use the Internet and certainly don't go on any social media platforms, even Facebook. We can't expect every single person to know all the details.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 78 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fuck McDonalds, fuck Google. Got it.

Hey, I was already there!

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 months ago

Yeah, they let Trump behind the counter. Fuck McDonalds.

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 52 points 5 months ago

They do this for every business that gets review bombed. I don't know what's the big surprise there.

In fact, if you use Google maps, you yourself agreed to Not do this kind of behavior in the TOS.

This has been causal in the past for directly suspending Gmail accounts

[–] db2@lemmy.world 42 points 5 months ago

This is expected for non-legitimate reviews.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 37 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

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

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 5 months ago

But not this particular McDick's, so this is big news. Huge even. /s

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Personally, I think the class traitor is the one who deserves this ire.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 11 points 5 months ago

I was shocked that he showed his face to the media (BBC article from earlier today). Bold.

[–] index@sh.itjust.works 29 points 5 months ago

Time to review bomb google

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 months ago

I mean, they're correct.

But fuck McDonald's.

[–] mEEGal@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

they did this when TikTok was review-bombed on Play Store a few years back. tas long as they make the rules, we can't beat them at their own game

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I'm guessing they are very specific as to which terms have been violated in their decision to remove.

[–] morriscox@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why blame a business for the actions of one person?

[–] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oops