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Anti-vaxxers are weaponizing Yelp to punish bars that require vaccine proof

22 pointsby tjwdsalmost 4 years ago

3 comments

mardifoufsalmost 4 years ago
My family is fully vaccinated but wow, what a dishonest way to frame the conversation. Being against vaccine passports is not the same as being antivaxxer. It&#x27;s just astounding how easy it is to manipulate the public debate by basically framing any dissenting view as coming from deranged antiscience freaks. That tactic has been used ad nauseam over the past year. (And while I never really bought into the concept of &quot;manufacturing consent&quot; before, this non stop framing has got to be a prime example of how to do exactly that.)<p>Of course actual anti vaxxers oppose vaccine mandates for the most part, so there&#x27;s an overlap. But I&#x27;m also against private businesses overstepping local governmental mandates and asking for vaccination proof, since I hate the precedent that it sets and it actually does nothing to stop the virus spread (beyond feel good&#x2F;KYA security theatre). Does that make me an antivaxxer? Well if it does, then the word has lost any useful meaning.
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faeriechanglingalmost 4 years ago
Seems like fair play to me honestly and can only really be elegantly dealt with on yelps end by tracking who users are and showing them reviews of people with similar preferences.<p>The logical approach to me given the current system would be vax passport proponents to penalize bars for NOT requiring such passports in the reviews. I think these reviews are fair game but the knife cuts both ways.<p>Not that I use Yelp since they&#x27;re extortion racketeers.
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teoremaalmost 4 years ago
I stopped using Yelp long ago due to their business practices. This is a different issue but simply reinforces the decision.