[mrguyorama]

Or, you know, Google's review system has no law that actually ensures they only remove valid and actual defamation claims from the system, so they just remove whatever and claim it's defamation.

The US has no strict defamation law and yet your bad review will often still get removed from Amazon or Yelp for no valid reason.

[l23k4]

>Or, you know, Google's review system has no law that actually ensures they only remove valid and actual defamation claims from the system, so they just remove whatever and claim it's defamation.

How could Google possibly decide which defamation claim is valid and which is not? What realistic cost-effective alternative do they have which does not involve accepting every report of defamation at face value?

>The US has no strict defamation law and yet your bad review will often still get removed from Amazon or Yelp for no valid reason.

Amazon and Yelp choose to do that, they are not forced to do that. How is that supposed to be even vaguely relevant?

[mrguyorama]

That's my point.

HN users love to blame this stuff on "Tyrannical EU law" when these things aren't driven by law at all!

If Google says "We are removing this because it violates German defamation laws", they don't have to be telling the truth!

Companies are making these choices for their own benefit and somehow HN posters still blame government.